The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

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May The Secret bring you love and

joy for your entire existence.
That is my intention for you,

and for the world.
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
The Secret Revealed 1
The Secret Made Simple 27
How to Use The Secret 45
Powerful Processes 71
The Secret to Money 95
The Secret to Relationships 113
The Secret to Health 125
The Secret to the World 141
The Secret to You 155
The Secret to Life 177
Biographies 185
A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I'd worked myself
into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationships
with my work colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little
did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the
greatest gift.
I'd been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The

glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my
daughter Hayley. I began tracing The Secret back through history.
I couldn't believe all the people who knew this. They were the
greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo,
Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Einstein.
Incredulous, I asked, "Why doesn't everyone know this?" A burn-

ing desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I
began searching for people alive today who knew The Secret.
One by one they began to emerge. I became a magnet: as I began

to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me.
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x Foreword
When I discovered one teacher, that one would link to the next,
in a perfect chain. If I was on the wrong track, something else
would catch my attention, and through the diversion the next great
teacher would appear. If I "accidentally" pressed the wrong link
on an internet search, I would be led to a vital piece of informa-
tion. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the
centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of
the Secret.
The vision of taking The Secret to the world in a film had become
fixed in my mind, and over the following two months my film and
television production team learned The Secret. It was imperative
that every team member knew it, because without its knowledge,
what we were about to attempt would be impossible.
We did not have a single teacher secured to film, but we knew The
Secret, and so with utter faith I flew from Australia to the United
States where the majority of the teachers were based. Seven weeks
later The Secret team had filmed fifty-five of the greatest teachers
across the United States, with over 120 hours of film. With every
step, with every breath, we used The Secret to create the The Se-
cret. We literally magnetized everything and everyone to us. Eight
months later The Secret was released.
As the film swept the world, stories of miracles began to flood in:
people wrote about healing from chronic pain, depression, and
disease; walking for the first time after an accident; even recovering
from a deathbed. We have received thousands of accounts of The Se-
cret being used to bring about large sums of money and unexpected
Foreword xi
checks in the mail. People have used The Secret to manifest their
perfect homes, life partners, cars, jobs, and promotions, with many
accounts of businesses being transformed within days of applying
The Secret. There have been heart-warming stories of stressed re-
lationships involving children being restored to harmony.
Some of the most magnificent stories we have received have come

from children using The Secret to attract what they want, including
high grades and friends. The Secret has inspired doctors to share
the knowledge with their patients; universities and schools with
their students; health clubs with their clients; churches of all de-
nominations and spiritual centers with their congregations. There
are Secret parties being held in homes around the world, as people
share the knowledge with loved ones and families. The Secret has
been used to attract all manner of things—from a specific feather
to ten million dollars. All of this has taken place in the few months
since the release of the film.
My intention in creating The Secret was—and still is—that it will

bring joy to billions around the world. The Secret team is experi-
encing the realization of that intention every day, as we receive
thousands upon thousands of letters from people across the world,
of all ages, all races/ and all nationalities, expressing gratitude for
the joy of The Secret. There isn't a single thing that you cannot do
with this knowledge. It doesn't matter who you are or where you
are, The Secret can give you whatever you want.
Twenty-four amazing teachers are featured in this book. Their

words were filmed all over the United States, all at different times.
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yet they speak as one voice. This book contains The Secret teach-
ers' words, and it also contains miraculous stories of The Secret in
action. I have shared all of the easy paths, tips, and shortcuts that I
have learned so that you can live the life of your dreams.
You will notice throughout the book that in certain places I have
capitalized the word "You." The reason I did this is because I want
you, the reader, to feel and know that I created this book for you. I
am speaking to you personally when I say You. My intention is for
you to feel a personal connection with these pages, because The
Secret has been created for You.
As you travel through its pages and you learn The Secret, you will
come to know how you can have, be, or do anything you want. You
will come to know who you really are. You will come to know the
true magnificence that awaits you.
With the deepest gratitude I wish to thank every person who
has come into my life and inspired, touched, and illuminated me
through their presence.
I would also like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to the

following people for their magnificent support and contributions
to my journey and to the creation of this book:
For generously sharing their wisdom, love, and divinity, I pay

homage to the featured co-authors of The Secret: John Assaraf,
Michael Bernard Beckwith, Lee Brower, Jack Canfield, Dr. John De-
martini, Marie Diamond, Mike Dooley, Bob Doyle, Hale Dwoskin,
Morris Goodman, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Hagelin, Bill Harris, Dr.
Ben Johnson, Loral Langemeier, Lisa Nichols, Bob Proctor, James
Ray, David Schirmer, Marci Shimoff, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Denis Wait-
ley, Neale Donald Walsch, and Dr. Fred Alan Wolf.
The magnificent human beings that make up The Secret production

team: Paul Harrington, Glenda Bell, Skye Byrne, and Nic George.
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Also to Drew Heriot, Daniel Kerr, Damian Corboy, and to all who
journeyed with us in the creation of the film The Secret.
Gozer Media, for the creation of the superb graphics and for im-
pregnating them with the feeling of The Secret: James Armstrong,
Shamus Hoare, and Andy Lewis.
The CEO of The Secret, Bob Rainone, who was delivered to us from
heaven.
Michael Gardiner and the legal and advisory team across Australia
and the United States.
The Secret website team: Dan Hollings, John Herren, and all at
Powerful Intentions who manage and run The Secret Forum, along
with the wonderful people on the forum.
The great avatars and master teachers from the past, whose writ-
ings lit a burning fire of desire within me. I have walked in the
shadows of their greatness, and I honor every one of them. Special
thanks to Robert Collier and Robert Collier Publications, Wal-
lace Wattles, Charles Haanel, Joseph Campbell and the Joseph
Campbell Foundation, Prentice Mulford, Genevieve Behrend, and
Charles Fillmore.
To Richard Cohn and Cynthia Black of Atria Books/Beyond Words,

and Judith Curr of Simon & Schuster, for opening their hearts
and embracing The Secret. For their editing: Henry Covi and Julie
Steigerwaldt.
Acknowledgments xv
For their generosity in sharing their stories: Cathy Goodman; Susan

Sloate and Colin Halm; Susan Morrice, director of Belize Natural En-
ergy; Jeannie MacKay; and Joe Sugarman.
For their inspirational teachings: Dr. Robert Anthony, Jerry and Es-
ther Hicks and the teachings of Abraham, David Cameron Gikandi,
John Harricharan, Catherine Ponder, Gay and Katie Hendricks,
Stephen MR Covey, Eckhart Tolle, and Debbie Ford. For their gen-
erous support: Chris and Janet Attwood, Marcia Martin, members
of the Transformational Leaders Council, the Spiritual Cinema Cir-
cle, the staff at Agape Spiritual Center, and the assistants and staff
of all the teachers featured in The Secret.
My precious friends for their love and support: Marcy Koltun-

Crilley, Margaret Rainone, Athena Golianis and John Walker,
Elaine Bate, Andrea Keir, and Michael and Kendra Abay. And my
amazing family: Peter Byrne; my very special sisters: Jan Child
for her invaluable help with this book, Pauline Vernon, Kaye Izon
(deceased), and Glenda Bell, who is always by my side and whose
love and support knows no limits. My courageous and beauti-
ful mother, Irene Izon, and in memory of my father, Ronald Izon,
whose light and love continue to shine through our lives.
And finally to my daughters, Hayley and Skye Byrne. To Hayley,

who was responsible for the beginning of my life and its true jour-
ney, and to Skye, who followed my footsteps in the creation of this
book, and who brilliantly edited and transformed my words. My
daughters are the precious jewels of my life, and they illuminate
every breath I take through their very existence.
BOB PROCTOR
PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR, AND PERSONAL COACH
The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness,
health, and wealth.
DR. JOE VITALE

METAPHYSICIAN, MARKETING SPECIALIST, AND
AUTHOR
You can have, do, or be anything you want.
JOHN ASSARAF
ENTREPRENEUR AND MONEYMAKING EXPERT
We can have whatever it is that we choose. 1 don't
care how big it is.
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What kind of a house do you want to live in? Do you want

to be a millionaire? What kind of a business do you want to
have? Do you want more success? What do you really want?
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

PHILOSOPHER, CHIROPRACTOR, HEALER, AND
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST
This is the Great Secret of Life.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY

PSYCHOLOGIST AND TRAINER IN THE FIELD OF
MIND POTENTIAL
The leaders in the past who had The Secret wanted
to keep the power and not share the power. They kept
people ignorant of The Secret. People went to work, they
did their job, they came home. They were on a treadmill with
no power, because The Secret was kept in the few.
Throughout history there have been many who coveted the knowl-
edge of The Secret and there have been many who found a way of
spreading this knowledge to the world.
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH

VISIONARY AND FOUNDER OF AGAPE
INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL CENTER
I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives.
Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental

healing, healing of relationships.
JACK CANFIELD
AUTHOR, TEACHER, LIFE COACH, AND
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
Alt of this happened because of knowing how to
apply The Secret.
BOB PROCTOR
You've probably been sitting there wondering, "What is The
Secret?" ill tell you how I've come to understand it.
We all work with one infinite power. We all guide ourselves

by exactly the same laws. The natural laws of the universe
are so precise that we don't even have any difficulty building
spaceships, we can send people to the moon, and we can time
the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second.
Wherever you are—India, Australia, New Zealand,

Stockholm, London, Toronto, Montreal, or New York—we're
all working with one power. One Law. It's attraction!
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The Secret is the law of attraction!
Everything that's coming into your life you are attracting

into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images
you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking.
Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you.
"Every thought of yours is a real thing—a force."
The greatest teachers who have ever lived have told us that the law
of attraction is the most powerful law in the Universe.
Poets such as William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and William

Blake delivered it in their poetry. Musicians such as Ludwig van
Beethoven expressed it through their music. Artists such as Leo-
nardo da Vinci depicted it in their paintings. Great thinkers includ-
ing Socrates, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pythagoras, Sir Francis
Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Victor
Hugo shared it in their writings and teachings. Their names have
been immortalized, and their legendary existence has survived
centuries.
Religions, such as Hinduism, Hermetic traditions, Buddhism,

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and civilizations, such as the
ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, delivered it through their writ-
ings and stories. Recorded throughout the ages in all its forms, the
law can be found in ancient writings through all the centuries. It

was recorded in stone in 3000 BC. Even though some coveted this
knowledge, and indeed they did, it has always been there for any-
one to discover.
The law began at the beginning of time. It has always been and will
always be.
It is the law that determines the complete order in the Universe,

every moment of your life, and every single thing you experience
in your life. It doesn't matter who you are or where you are, the
law of attraction is forming your entire life experience, and this all-
powerful law is doing that through your thoughts. You are the one
who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through
your thoughts.
In 1912 Charles Haanel described the law of attraction as "the

greatest and the most infallible law upon which the entire system
of creation depends."
BOB PROCTOR
Wise people have always known this. You can go right back
to the ancient Babylonians. They've always known this. It's a
small select group of people.
The ancient Babylonians and their great prosperity have been

well documented by scholars. They are also known for creating
one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens
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of Babylon. Through their understanding and application of the

laws of the Universe, they became one of the wealthiest races in
history.
BOB PROCTOR
Why do you think that 1 percent of the population earns
around 96 percent of all the money that's being earned? Do
you think that's an accident? It's designed that way. They
understand something. They understand The Secret, and now
you are being introduced to The Secret.
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret,
whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of
abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory
thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts
are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in
their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant
thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law
of attraction in action.
A perfect example to demonstrate The Secret and the law of attrac-

tion in action is this: You may know of people who acquired mas-
sive wealth, lost it all, and within a short time acquired massive
wealth again. What happened in these cases, whether they knew
it or n o t is that their dominant thoughts were on wealth; that is
how they acquired it in the first instance. Then they allowed fear-
ful thoughts of losing the wealth to enter their minds, until those
fearful thoughts of loss became their dominant thoughts. They
tipped the scales from thinking thoughts of wealth to thinking
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thoughts of loss, and so they lost it all. Once they had lost it how-
ever, the fear of loss disappeared, and they tipped the scales back
with dominant thoughts of wealth. And wealth returned.
The law responds to your thoughts, no matter what they may be.
JOHN ASSARAF
The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if
I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet wilt
attract to it
You are the most powerful magnet in the Universe! You contain a
magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything
in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted
through your thoughts.
BOB DOYLE
BOB DOYLE
AUTHOR AND LAW OF ATTRACTION SPECIALIST
Basically put, the law of attraction says that like attracts
like. But we're really talking at a level of thought.
The law of attraction says like attracts like, and so as you think a
thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you. Here are more
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examples you may have experienced of the law of attraction in

your life:
Have you ever started to think about something you were not
happy about, and the more you thought about it the worse it
seemed? That's because as you think one sustained thought, the
law of attraction immediately brings more like thoughts to you. In a
matter of minutes, you have gotten so many like unhappy thoughts
coming to you that the situation seems to be getting worse. The
more you think about it, the more upset you get.
You may have experienced attracting like thoughts when you lis-
tened to a song, and then found that you couldn't get that song
out of your head. The song just kept playing over and over in your
mind. When you listened to that song, even though you may not
have realized it, you gave your full attention and focus of thought
to it. As you did that, you were powerfully attracting more like
thoughts of that song, and so the law of attraction moved into
action and delivered more thoughts of that song, over and over
again.
JOHN ASSARAF
Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we
want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want,
and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the
Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what
you think about most but you also attract what you think
about most.
Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That in-
cludes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so
great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy
to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of
your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!
Now you are learning The Secret, and with this knowledge, you
can change everything.
BOB PROCTOR
If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your
hand.
If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that
your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
MIKE DOOLEY
AUTHOR AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
And that principle can be summed up in three simple
words. Thoughts become things!
Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become the things
in your life. Your thoughts become things! Say this over to yourself
and let it seep into your consciousness and your awareness. Your
thoughts become things!
JOHN ASSARAF
What most people don't understand is that a thought has
a frequency. We can measure a thought. And so if you're
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thinking that thought over and over and over again, if you're
imagining in your mind having that brand new car, having
the money that you need, building that company, finding your
soul mate... if you're imagining what that looks like, you're
emitting that frequency on a consistent basis.
DR, JOE VITALE

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is
drawing the parallel back to you.
"The predominant thought or the mental

attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like
attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude
will invariably attract such conditions as
correspond to its nature."
Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you

think, those thoughts are sent out into the Universe, and they
magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency.
Everything sent out returns to the source. And that source is
You.
Think of it this way: we understand that a television station's trans-

mission tower broadcasts via a frequency, which is transformed
into pictures on your television. Most of us don't really understand
how it works, but we know that each channel has a frequency,
and when we tune into that frequency we see the pictures on our
television. We choose the frequency by selecting the channel, and
we then receive the pictures broadcast on that channel. If we want
to see different pictures on our television, we change the channel
and rune into a new frequency.
You are a human transmission tower, and you are more powerful
than any television tower created on earth. You are the most pow-
erful transmission tower in the Universe. Your transmission cre-
ates your life and it creates the world. The frequency you transmit
reaches beyond cities, beyond countries, beyond the world. It re-
verberates throughout the entire Universe. And you are transmit-
ting that frequency with your thoughts!
The pictures you receive from the transmission of your thoughts

are not on a television screen in your living room, they are the pic-
tures of your life! Your thoughts create the frequency, they attract
like things on that frequency, and then they are broadcast back to
you as your life pictures. If you want to change anything in your
life, change the channel and change the frequency by changing
your thoughts.
"The vibrations of mental forces are the

finest and consequently the most powerful in
existence."
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BOB PROCTOR
See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It
works every time, with every person.
As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully

and consciously determining your life through the law of attrac-
tion. It's that easy. But then the most obvious question becomes,
"Why isn't everybody living the life of their dreams?"
JOHN ASSARAF
Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they
don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and
over again.
The only reason why people do not have what they want is be-
cause they are thinking more about what they don't want than
what they do want. Listen to your thoughts, and listen to the
words you are saying. The law is absolute and there are no mis-
takes.
An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever

seen has been raging for centuries. It is the "don't want" epidemic.
People keep this epidemic alive when they predominantly think,

speak, act, and focus on what they "don't want." But this is the
generation that will change history, because we are receiving the
knowledge that can free us of this epidemic! It begins with you,,
and you can become a pioneer of this new thought movement by
simply thinking and speaking about what you want.
BOB DOYLE
The law of attraction doesn't care whether you perceive
something to be good or bad, or whether you don't want it or
whether you do want it. It's res-ponding to your thoughts. So
if you're looking at a mountain of debt, feeling terrible about
it, that's the signal you're putting out into the Universe. "I
feel really bad because of all this debt I've got." You're just
affirming it to yourself. You feel it on every level of your
being. That's what you're going to get more of.
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is impersonal and it does

not see good things or bad things. It is receiving your thoughts and
reflecting back to you those thoughts as your life experience. The law
of attraction simply gives you whatever it is you are thinking about.
LISA NICHOLS
AUTHORAND PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
ADVOCATE
The law of attraction is really obedient. When you think of the
things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your
intention, then the law of attraction will give you exactly
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what you want, every time. When you focus on the things
that you don't want — "I don't want to be late, I don't want
to be late"—the law of attraction doesn't hear that you don't
want it. It manifests the things that you're thinking of and
so it's going to show up over and over and over again. The
law of attraction is not biased to wants or don't wants. When
you focus on something, no matter what it happens to be, you
really are calling that into existence.
When you focus your thoughts on something you want, and you
hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning what you
want with the mightiest power in the Universe. The law of attrac-
tion doesn't compute "don't" or "not" or "no," or any other words
of negation. As you speak words of negation, this is what the law
of attraction is receiving:
"I don't want to spill something on this outfit."

"I want to spill something on this outfit and I want to spill
more things."
"I don't want a bad haircut."

"I want bad haircuts."
"I don't want to be delayed."

"I want delays."
"I don't want that person to be rude to me."

"I want that person and more people to be rude to me."
"I don't want the restaurant to give away our table."

"I want restaurants to give away our tables."
"I don't want these shoes to hurt."

"I want shoes to hurt."
"I can't handle all this work."

"I want more work than I can handle."
"I don't want to catch the flu."

"I want the flu and I want to catch more things."
"I don't want to argue."
"I want more arguing."
"Don't speak to me like that."

"I want you to speak to me like that and I want other people to
speak to me like that."
The law of attraction is giving you what you are thinking about
—period!
BOB PROCTOR
The law of attraction is always working, whether you believe
it or understand it or not.
The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell

us that the entire Universe emerged from thought! You create your
life through your thoughts and the law of attraction, and every
single person does the same. It doesn't just work if you know about
it. It has always been working in your life and every other person's
life throughout history. When you become aware of this great law,
then you become aware of how incredibly powerful you are, to be
able to THINK your life into existence.
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LISA NICHOLS
It's working as much as you're thinking. Any time your
thoughts are flowing, the law of attraction is working.
When you're thinking about the past, the law of attraction's
working. When you're thinking about the present or the
future, the law of attraction is working. It's an ongoing
process. You don't press pause, you don't press stop. It is
forever in action, as your thoughts are.
Whether we realize it or not, we are thinking most of the time. If

you are speaking or listening to someone, you are thinking. If you
are reading the newspaper or watching television, you are think-
ing. When you recall memories from your past, you are think-
ing. When you are considering something in your future, you are
thinking. When you are driving, you are thinking. When you arc
getting ready in the morning, you are thinking. For many of us,
the only time we are not thinking is when we are asleep; however,
the forces of attraction are still operating on our last thoughts as
we fall asleep. Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good
thoughts.

Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has
a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in
the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of
those thoughts.
What you are thinking now is creating your future life. You create
your life with your thoughts. Because you are always thinking, you
are always creating. What you think about the most or focus on the
most is what will appear as your life.
Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law. You cre-
ate your life. Whatever you sow, you reap! Your thoughts are seeds,
and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.
If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring

into your life more situations for you to complain about. If you are
listening to someone else complain and focusing on that sympa-
thizing with them, agreeing with them, in that moment, you are
attracting more situations to yourself to complain about.
The law is simply reflecting and giving back to you exactly what
you are focusing on with your thoughts. With this powerful knowl-
edge, you can completely change every circumstance and event in
your entire life, by changing the way you think.
BILL HARRIS
TEACHER AND FOUNDER OF
CENTERPOINTE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
I had a student named Robert, who was taking an
online course I have, part of which entails email access
to me.
Robert was gay. He outlined all of the grim realities of his

life in his emails to me. In his job, his coworkers ganged up
on him. It was constantly stressful because of how nasty
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they were with him. When he walked down the street, he was
accosted by homophobic people who wanted to abuse him in
some way. He wanted to become a stand-up comedian, and
when he did a stand-up comedy job, everybody heckled him
about being gay. His whole life was one of unhappiness and
misery, and it all focused around being attacked because he
was gay.
I began to teach him that he was focusing on what he did not

want. I directed him back to his email that he sent me and
said, "Read it again. Look at all the things you do not want
that you're telling me about. I can tell you're very passionate
about this and when you focus on something with a lot of
passion, it makes it happen even faster!"
Then he started taking this thing about focusing on what

you want to heart, and he began really trying it. What
happened within the next six to eight weeks was an absolute
miracle. All the people in his office who had been harassing
him either transferred to another department, quit working
at the company, or started completely leaving him alone. He
began to love his job. When he walked down the street, nobody
harassed him anymore. They just weren't there. When he did
his stand-up comedy routines he started getting standing
ovations, and nobody was heckling him!
His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on

what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted
to avoid, to focusing on what he did want.
Robert's life changed because he changed his thoughts. He emitted

a different frequency out into the Universe. The Universe must de-
liver the pictures of the new frequency no matter how impossible
the situation might seem. Robert's new thoughts became his new
frequency, and the pictures of his entire life changed.
Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no mat-
ter what has happened in your life, you can begin to consciously
choose your thoughts, and you can change your life. There is no
such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of
your life can change!

You attract to you the predominant thoughts that you're
holding in your awareness, whether those thoughts are
conscious or unconscious. That's the rub.
Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not,
now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of
The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming
aware! Aware of the knowledge, aware of the law, aware of the
power you have through your thoughts.
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DR JOHN DEMARTINI
If you look very carefully when it comes to The Secret, and the
power of our mind and the power of our intention in our daily
lives, it's all around us. All we have to do is open our eyes and
look.
LISA NICHOLS
You can see the law of attraction everywhere. You draw
everything to yourself. The people, the job, the circumstances, the
health, the wealth, the debt, the joy, the car that you drive, the
community that you're in. And you've drawn them all to you,
like a magnet. What you think about you bring about Your whole
life is a manifestation of the thoughts that go on in your head.
This is a Universe of inclusion, not exclusion. Nothing is excluded

from the law of attraction. Your life is a mirror of the dominant
thoughts you think. All living things on this planet operate through
the law of attraction. The difference with humans is that they have
a mind that can discern. They can use their free will to choose their
thoughts. They have the power to intentionally think and create
their entire life with their mind.
DR. FRED ALAN WOLF

QUANTUM PHYSICIST, LECTURER,
AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of
wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. I'm
talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.
Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It

says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering
into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing
that is being perceived.
If you think about the analogy of being the most powerful trans-
mission tower in the Universe, you will see the perfect correlation
with Dr. Wolf's words. Your mind thinks thoughts and the pictures
are broadcast back as your life experience. You not only create your
life with your thoughts, but your thoughts add powerfully to the
creation of the world, If you thought that you were insignificant
and had no power in this world, think again. Your mind is actually
shaping the world around you.
The amazing work and discoveries of the quantum physicists

over the last eighty years has brought us to a greater understand-
ing of the unfathomable power of the human mind to create.
Their work parallels the words of the world's great minds, in-
cluding Carnegie, Emerson, Shakespeare, Bacon, Krishnamurti,
and Buddha.
BOB PROCTOR
If you don't understand the law that doesn't mean you should
reject it. You may not understand electricity, and yet you
enjoy the benefits of it. I don't know how it works. But I do
knew this: You can cook a man's dinner with electricity, and
you can also cook the man!
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Oftentimes when people begin to understand the Great Secret,
they become frightened of all the negative thoughts that they
have. They need to be aware that it has been scientifically
proven that an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more
powerful than a negative thought. That eliminates a degree of
worry right there.
It really does take many negative thoughts and persistent negative

thinking to bring something negative into your life. However, if
you persist in thinking negative thoughts over a period of time,
they will appear in your life. If you worry about having negative
thoughts, you will attract more worrying about your negative
thoughts, and multiply them at the same time. Decide right now
that you are going to think only good thoughts. At the same time,
proclaim to the Universe that all your good thoughts are powerful,
and that any negative thoughts are weak.
LISA NICHOLS
Thank God that there's a time delay, that all of your
thoughts don't come true instantly. We'd be in trouble if
they did. The element of time delay serves you. It allows
you to reassess, to think about what you want, and to make
a new choice.
All of your power to create your life is available right now, because
right now is when you are thinking. If you have had some thoughts
that will not be beneficial when they manifest, then right now you
can change your thinking. You can erase your previous thoughts by
replacing them with good thoughts. Time serves you because you
can think new thoughts and emit a new frequency, now!
DR. JOE VITALE

You want to become aware of your thoughts and choose your
thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you
are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of
your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.
One way to master your mind is to learn to quiet your mind. With-
out exception, every teacher in this book uses meditation as a daily
practice. It wasn't until I discovered The Secret that I realized how
powerful meditation can be. Meditation quiets your mind, helps
you control your thoughts, and revitalizes your body. The great
news is that you don't have to set aside hours to meditate. Just
three to ten minutes a day to begin with, can be incredibly power-
ful for gaining control over your thoughts.
To become aware of your thoughts, you can also set the intention,
"I am the master of my thoughts." Say it often, meditate on it, and
as you hold to that intention, by the law of attraction you must
become that.
You are now receiving the knowledge that will enable you to create
the most magnificent version of You. The possibility of that version
of you already exists on the frequency of "the most magnificent
version of You." Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think
the thoughts of it, emit the frequency, and your vision will become
your life.
• The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction.
• The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a
thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.
• Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think

thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically
attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent
out returns to the source—you.
• You are like a human transmission tower, transmitting a frequency

with your thoughts. If you want to change anything in your life,
change the frequency by changing your thoughts.
• Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think
about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.
• Your thoughts become things.
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We live in a universe in which there are laws, just as there is
a law of gravity. If you fail off a building it doesn't matter if
you're a good person or a had person, you're going to hit the
ground.
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and imper-

sonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise, and it is exact
DR. JOE VlTALE

Everything that surrounds you right now in your life,
including the things you're complaining about, you've
attracted. Now I know at first blush that's going to
be something that you hate to hear. You're going to
immediately say, "I didn't attract the car accident. I didn't
attract this particular client who gives me a hard time. I
didn't particularly attract the debt." And I'm here to be
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a little bit in your face and to say, yes you did attract it.
This is one of the hardest concepts to get, but once you've
accepted it, it's life transforming.
Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall
events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find
it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted
themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on
the same frequency as the event. It doesn't necessarily mean they
thought of that exact event, but the frequency of their thoughts
matched the frequency of the event. If people believe they can be
in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control
over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and
powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
You have a choice right now. Do you want to believe that it's just
the luck of the draw and bad things can happen to you at any time?
Do you want to believe that you can be in the wrong place at the
wrong time? That you have no control over circumstances?
Or do you want to believe and know that your life experience is in

your hands and that only all good can come into your life because
that is the way you think? You have a choice, and whatever you
choose to think will become your life experience.
Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it

through persistent thoughts.
BOB DOYLE
Most of us attract by default. We just think that we don't
have any control over it. Our thoughts and feelings are on
autopilot, and so everything is brought to us by default.
No one would ever deliberately attract anything unwanted.

Without the knowledge of The Secret, it is easy to see how some
unwanted things may have occurred in your life or other people's
lives. It simply came from a lack of awareness of the great creative
power of our thoughts.
DR. JOE VlTALE

Now if this is your first time to hear this, it may feel like,
"Oh, I have to monitor my thoughts? This is going to be a lot
of work." It will seem like that at first, but that's where the
fun begins.
The fun is that there are many shortcuts to The Secret, and you get
to choose the shortcuts that work best for you. Read on, and you'll
see how.
MARCI SHIMOFF
AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, AND
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER
It's impossible to monitor every thought we have.
Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand
thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you'd
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feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts?

Fortunately there's an easier way, and it's our feelings. Our
feelings let us know what we're thinking.
The importance of feelings cannot be overstated. Your feelings are

your greatest tool to help you create your life. Your thoughts are
the primary cause of everything. Everything else you see and ex-
perience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The
cause is always your thoughts.
BOB DOYLE
/ The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us
know what we're thinking.
Your feelings tell you very quickly what you're thinking. Think
about when your feelings suddenly took a dive—maybe when you
heard some bad news. That feeling in your stomach or solar plexus
was instant. So your feelings are an immediate signal for you to
know what you are thinking.
You want to become aware of how you're feeling, and get in tune
with how you're feeling, because it is the fastest way for you to
know what you're thinking.
LISA NICHOLS
You have two sets of feelings: good feelings and bad feelings.
And you know the difference between the two because one
makes you feel good, and the other makes you feel bad. It's the
depression, it's the anger, it's the resentment, it's the guilt. It's
those feelings that don't make you feel empowered. Those are
the bad feelings.
No one can tell you whether you are feeling good or bad, because
you are the only one who knows how you're feeling at any time. If
you're not sure how you're feeling, just ask yourself, "How am I
feeling?" You can stop and ask this question often during the day,
and as you do you will become more aware of how you're feeling.
The most important thing for you to know is that it is impossible

to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. That
would defy the law, because your thoughts cause your feelings. If
you are feeling bad, it is because you are thinking thoughts that are
making you feel bad.
Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you
immediately what frequency you are on. When you are feeling bad,
you are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. The law of
attraction must respond by broadcasting back to you more pictures
of bad things and things that will make you feel bad.
As you feel bad, and don't make any effort to change your thoughts
and feel better, you are in effect saying, "Bring me more circum-
stances that will make me feel bad. Bring it on!"
LISA NICHOLS
The flipside to that is that you have good emotions and good
feelings. You know when they come because they make you
feel good. Excitement, joy, gratitude, love. Imagine if we could
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feel that way every day. When you celebrate the good feelings,
you'll draw to you more good feelings, and things that make
you feel good.
BOB DOYLE
It's really so simple. "What am I attracting right now? " Well,
how do you feel? "I feel good." Well good, keep doing that.
It is impossible to feel good and at the same time be having nega-

tive thoughts. If you are feeling good, it is because you are thinking
good thoughts. You see, you can have whatever you want in your
life, no limits. But there's one catch: You have to feel good. And
when you think about it, isn't that all you ever want? The law is
indeed perfect.
MARCLSHIMOFF
If you're feeling good, then you're creating a future that's on
track with your desires. If you're feeling bad, you're creating
a future that's off track with your desires. As you go about
your day, the law of attraction is working in every second.
Everything we think and feel is creating our future. If you're
worried or in fear, then you're bringing more of that into your
life throughout the day.
When you are feeling good, you must be thinking good thoughts.
So you are on track and you are emitting a powerful frequency that
is attracting back to you more good things that will make you feel
good. Seize those moments when you are feeling good, and milk
them. Be aware that as you are feeling good, you are powerfully
attracting more good things to you.
Let's go one step further. What if your feelings are actually commu-
nication from the Universe to let you know what you're thinking?
JACKCANFIELD
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether
we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.
Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.

So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out
into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the
like frequency and then within seconds sends the reading of that
frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way,
your feelings are communication back to you from the Universe,
telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are
your frequency feedback mechanism!
When you are feeling good feelings, it is communication back from

the Universe saying, "You are thinking good thoughts" Likewise,
when you are feeling bad, you are receiving communication back
from the Universe saying, "You are thinking bad thoughts."
So when you are feeling bad it is communication from the Uni-

verse, and in effect it is saying, "Warning! Change thinking now.
Negative frequency recording. Change frequency. Counting down
to manifestation. Warning!"
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The next time you are feeling bad or feeling any negative emotion,
listen to the signal you are receiving from the Universe. In that
moment you are blocking your own good from coming to you be-
cause you are on a negative frequency. Change your thoughts and
think about something good, and when the good feelings start
to come you will know it was because You shifted yourself on to
a new frequency, and the Universe has confirmed it with better
feelings.
BOB DOYLE
You 're getting exactly what you're feeling about, not so much
what you're thinking about.
That's why people tend to spiral if they stub their toe getting
out of bed. Their whole day goes like that. They have no clue
that a simple shifting of their emotions can change their entire
day—and life.
If you start out having a good day and you're in that particular
happy feeling, as long as you don't allow something to change
your mood, you're going to continue to attract, by the law of
attraction, more situations and people that sustain that happy
feeling.
We all have experienced those days or times when one thing after
another goes wrong. The chain reaction began with one thought,
whether you were aware of it or not. The one bad thought attracted
more bad thoughts, the frequency locked in, and eventually some-
thing went wrong. Then as you reacted to that one thing going
wrong, you attracted more things going wrong. Reactions just at-
tract more of the same, and the chain reaction must keep occurring
until you move yourself off that frequency by intentionally chang-
ing your thoughts.
You can shift your thoughts to what you want receive confirma-
tion through your feelings that you changed your frequency, and
the law of attraction will grab hold of that new frequency and send
it back to you as the new pictures of your life.
Now here is where you can harness your feelings and use them to
turbo-charge what you want in your life.
You can purposefully use your feelings to transmit an even more

powerful frequency, by adding feeling to what you are wanting.

You can begin right now to feel healthy. You can begin to feel
prosperous. You can begin to feet the love that's surrounding
you, even if it's not there. And what will happen is the
universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The
universe will correspond to the nature of that inner feeling
and manifest, because that's the way you feel.
So what are you feeling now? Take a few moments to think about
how you feel. If you're not feeling as good as you'd like to, focus
on feeling your feelings inside and purposefully lift them. As you
focus intensely on your feelings, with the intention to lift yourself,
you can powerfully elevate them. One way is to close your eyes
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(shutting out distractions), focus on your feelings inside, and smile

for one minute.
LISA N I C H O L S
Your thoughts and your feelings create your life. It will
always be that way. Guaranteed!
Just like the law of gravity, the law of attraction never slips up.
You don't see pigs flying because the law of gravity made a mis-
take and forgot to apply gravity to pigs that day. Likewise, there
are no exclusions to the law of attraction. If something came to
you, you drew it, with prolonged thought. The law of attraction
is precise.
M I C H A E L B E R N A R D BECKWITH
It's hard to swallow, but when we can begin to open ourselves
up to that, the ramifications are awesome. It means that
whatever thought has done in your life, it can be undone
through a shift in your awareness.
You have the power to change anything, because you are the one
who chooses your thoughts and you are the one who feels your
feelings.
'You create your own universe as you go along."

The Secret Made Simple
D R . JOE VITALE
It's really important that you feel good, because this feeling
good is what goes out as a signal into the Universe and starts
to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good,
the more you will attract the things that help you feel good,
and are able to keep bringing you up higher and higher.
BOB PROCTOR
When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change
it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music, or start
singing—that'll change your emotion. Or think of something
beautiful. Think of a baby or somebody that you truly love,
and dwell on it. Really keep that thought in your mind. Block
every thing out but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to
feel good.
Make a list of some Secret Shifters to have up your sleeve. By

Secret Shifters, I mean things that can change your feelings in a
snap. It might be beautiful memories, future events, funny mo-
ments, nature, a person you love, your favorite music. Then if you
find yourself angry or frustrated or not feeling good, turn to your
Secret Shifters list and focus on one of them. Different things will
shift you at different times, so if one doesn't work, go to another. It
only takes a minute or two of changing focus to shift yourself and
shift your frequency.
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JAMES RAY
PHILOSOPHER, LECTURER, AUTHOR, AND
CREATOR OF PROSPERITY AND HUMAN
POTENTIAL PROGRAMS
The principle of feeling good applies to your family
pets, for instance. Animals are wonderful, because they put
you in a great emotional state. When you feel love for your
pet, that great state of love will bring goodness into your life.
And what a gift that is.
"It is the combination of thought and love

which forms the irresistible force of the law of
attraction."
There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you
could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and
everyone, your life would be transformed.
In fact, some of the great thinkers of the past referred to the law
of attraction as the law of love. And if you think about it, you will
understand why. If you think unkind thoughts about someone else,
you will experience those unkind thoughts manifested. You cannot

harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You. If you think
thoughts of love, guess who receives the benefits—you! So if your
predominant state is love, the law of attraction or the law of love
responds with the mightiest force because you are on the highest
frequency possible. The greater the love you feel and emit, the
greater the power you are harnessing.
"The principle which gives the thought the

dynamic power to correlate with its object,
and therefore to master every adverse human
experience, is the law of attraction, which is
another name for love. This is an eternal and
fundamental principle inherent in all things, in
every system of philosophy, in every Religion
and in every Science. There is no getting away
from the law of love. It is feeling that imparts
vitality to thought. Feeling is desire and desire is
love. Thought impregnated with love becomes
invincible."
MARCI SHIMOFF
Once you begin to understand and truly master your
thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create
your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where
all your power is.
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Marci Shimoff shared a wonderful quote from the great Albert

Einstein: "The most important question any human being can ask
themselves is, 'Is this a friendly Universe?'"
Knowing the law of attraction, the only answer to give is, "Yes,
the Universe is friendly." Why? Because when you answer in this
way, by the law of attraction you must experience that. Albert Ein-
stein posed this powerful question because he knew The Secret.
He knew by asking the question it would force us to think and
make a choice. He gave us a great opportunity, just by posing the
question.
To take Einstein's intention even further, you can affirm and pro-
claim, "This is a magnificent Universe. The Universe is bringing all
good things to me. The Universe is conspiring for me in all things.
The Universe is supporting me in everything I do. The Universe
meets all my needs immediately." Know that this is a friendly Uni-
verse!
J ACKCANFlELD
Since I learned The Secret and started applying it to my life,
my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that
everybody dreams of is one I live on a day-to-day basis. I live
in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to
die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world.
I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris.
And all of this happened, and continues to happen, because
of knowing how to apply The Secret.
BOB PROCTOR
Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it
will be, when you start using The Secret.
This is your life, and it's been waiting for you to discover it! Up
until now you may have been thinking that life is hard and a strug-
gle, and so by the law of attraction you will have experienced life
as hard and a struggle. Begin right now to shout to the universe,
"Life is so easy! Life is so good! All good things come to me!"
There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting
for you to discover it, and that Truth is this: you deserve all good
things life has to offer. You know that inherently, because you feel
awful when you are experiencing the lack of good things. All
good things are your birthright! You are the creator of you, and
the law of attraction is your magnificent tool to create whatever
you want in your life. Welcome to the magic of life, and the mag-
nificence of You!
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial as the law
of gravity.
Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it

through persistent thoughts.
To know what you're thinking, ask yourself how you are feeling.
Emotions are valuable tools that instantly tell us what we are
thinking.
It is impossible to feel bad and at the same time have good thoughts.
Your thoughts determine your frequency, and your feelings tell you
immediately what frequency you are on. When you feel bad, you
are on the frequency of drawing more bad things. When you feel
good, you are powerfully attracting more good things to you.
Secret Shifters, such as pleasant memories, nature, or your favorite

music, can change your feelings and shift your frequency in an in-
stant.
The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. The greater
the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.
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You are a creator, and there is an easy process to create using the
law of attraction. The greatest teachers and avatars have shared
the Creative Process through their wondrous work, in a myriad of
forms. Some great teachers created stories to demonstrate how the
Universe works. The wisdom contained in their stories has been
handed down through the centuries and has become legendary.
Many people living today do not realize that the essence of these
stories is the very truth of life.
JAMES RAY
If you think about Aladdin and his lamp, Aladdin picks up the
lamp, dusts it off, and out pops the Genie. The Genie always
says one thing:
"Your wish is my command!"
The story now goes that there are three wishes, hut if you
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trace the story back to its origins there's absolutely no limit

whatsoever to the wishes.
Think about that one.
Now, let's take this metaphor and apply it to your life.

Remember Aladdin is the one who always asks for what he
wants. Then you've got the Universe at large, which is the
Genie. Traditions have called it so many things—your holy
guardian angel, your higher self. We can put any label on
it, and you choose the one that works best for you, but every
tradition has told us there's something bigger than us. And
the Genie always says one thing:
This wonderful story demonstrates how your whole life and ev-
erything in it has been created by You. The Genie has simply an-
swered your every command. The Genie is the law of attraction,
and it is always present and always listening to everything you
think, speak, and act. The Genie assumes that everything you
think about, you want! That everything you speak about, you
want! That everything you act upon is what you want! You are the
Master of the Universe, and the Genie is there to serve you. The
Genie never questions your commands. You think it, and the Genie
immediately begins to leverage the Universe, through people, cir-
cumstances, and events, to fulfill your wish.
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The Creative Process used in The Secret, which was taken from the
New Testament in the Bible, is an easy guideline for you to create
what you want in three simple steps.
LISA NICHOLS
The first step is to ask. Make a command to the Universe. Let the
Universe know what you want. The Universe responds to your
thoughts.
BOB PROCTOR
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a
piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. You might begin
by writing, "I am so happy and grateful now that..." And
then explain how you want your life to be, in every area.
You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about
what you want. This is your work. If you're not clear, then the law
of attraction cannot bring you what you want. You will be sending
out a mixed frequency and you can only attract mixed results. For
the first time in your life perhaps, work out what it is you really
want. Now that you know you can have, be, or do anything, and
there are no limits, what do you want?
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Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to

ask. If you have to make a choice and you don't know which way
to go, ask! You should never be stumped on anything in your life.
Just ask!
DR. JOE VlTALE

This is really fun. It's like having the Universe as your
catalogue. You flip through it and say, "I'd like to have this
experience and I'd like to have that product and I'd like to
have a person like that." It is You placing your order with the
Universe. It's really that easy.
You do not have to ask over and over again. Just ask once. It is
exactly like placing an order from a catalogue. You only ever order
something once. You don't place an order and then doubt the order
has been received and so place the order again, and then again, and
then again. You order once. It is the same with the Creative Process.
Step One is simply your step to get clear about what you want. As
you get clear in your mind, you have asked.
LISA NICHOLS
Step two is believe. Believe that it's already yours. Have what
I love to call unwavering faith. Believing in the unseen.
You must believe that you have received. You must know that what
you want is yours the moment you ask. You must have complete
and utter faith. If you had placed an order from a catalogue you
would relax/ know you are going to receive what you ordered, and
get on with your life.
"See the things that you want as already yours.

Know that they will come to you at need. Then
let them come. Don't fret and worry about them.
Don't think about your lack of them. Think of
them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in
your possession."
In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it
in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.
You must act, speak, and think, as though you are receiving it now.
Why? The Universe is a mirror, and the law of attraction is mir-
roring back to you your dominant thoughts. So doesn't it make
sense that you have to see yourself as receiving it? If your thoughts
contain noticing you do not have it yet, you will continue to at-
tract not having it yet. You must believe you have it already. You
must believe you have received it. You have to emit the feeling
frequency of having received it, to bring those pictures back as
your life. When you do that, the law of attraction will powerfully
move all circumstances, people, and events, for you to receive.
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When you book a vacation, order a brand new car, or buy a house,
you know those things are yours. You wouldn't go and book an-
other vacation for the same time, or purchase another car or house.
If you won a lottery or received a large inheritance, even before
you physically had the money, you know it is yours. That is the
feeling of believing it is yours. That is the feeling of believing you
have it already. That is the feeling of believing you have received.
Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.
When you do that, the law of attraction will powerfully move all
circumstances, people, and events for you to receive.
How do you get yourself to a point of believing? Start make-

believing. Be like a child, and make-believe. Act as if you have it
already. As you make-believe, you will begin to believe you have
received. The Genie is responding to your predominant thoughts
all the time, not just in the moment you ask. That's why after
you've asked, you must continue to believe and know. Have faith.
Your belief that you have it, that undying faith, is your greatest
power. When you believe you are receiving, get ready, and watch
the magic begin!
"You can have what you want—if you know

how to form the mold for it in your own
thoughts. There is no dream that may not come
true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force
working through you. The methods that work
for one will work for all. The key to power lies in
using what you have . . . freely, fully . . . and thus
opening wide your channels for more Creative

Force to flow through you/'
DR. JOE VlTALE

The Universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen
for you.
JACKCANFIELD
Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we
truly want, because toe can't see how it's going to manifest.
BOB PROCTOR
If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident
to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not
know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were
going to do it.
DR. JOE VlTALE

You don't need to know how it's going to come about You
don't need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself
How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not
your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you. When
you are trying to work out how it will happen, you are emitting a
frequency that contains a lack of faith—that you don't believe you
have it already. You think you have to do it and you do not believe
the Universe will do it for you. The how is not your part in the
Creative Process.
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BOB PROCTOR
You don't know how, it will be shown to you. You will attract
the way.
LISA NICHOLS
Most of the time, when we don't see the things that we've
requested, we get frustrated. We get disappointed. And we
begin to become doubtful. The doubt brings about a feeling of
disappointment. Take that doubt and shift it. Recognize that
feeling and replace it with a feeling of unwavering faith. "I
know that it's on its way."
LISA N I C H O L S
Step three, and the final step in the process, is to receive.
Begin to feel wonderful about it. Feel the way you Will feel
once it arrives. Feel it now.
M A R C I SHIMOFF
And in this process it's important to feel good, to be happy,
because when you're feeling good you're putting yourself in
the frequency of what you want.
M I C H A E L BERNARD BECKWITH
This is a feeling Universe. If you just intellectually believe
something, but you have no corresponding feeling underneath
that, you don't necessarily have enough power to manifest

what you want in your life. You have to feel it.
Ask once, believe you have received, and all you have to do to
receive is feel good. When you are feeling good, you are on the
frequency of receiving. You are on the frequency of all good things
coming to you, and you will receive what you have asked for. You
wouldn't ask for anything unless it was going to make you feel
good in the receiving of it, would you? So get yourself on the feel-
good frequency, and you will receive.
A fast way to get yourself on that frequency is to say, "I am receiv-

ing now. I am receiving all the good in my life, now, I am receiving
[fill in your desire] now." And feel it. Feel it as though you have
received.
A dear friend of mine, Marcy, is one of the greatest manifestors I

have seen, and she feels everything. She feels what it would feel like
to have what she is asking for. She feels everything into existence.
She doesn't get caught up in how, when, or where, she Just feels it
and it then manifests.
So feel good now.
BOB PROCTOR
When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you're in the position
to build bigger and bigger fantasies. And that, my friend, is
the Creative Process.
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"Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall

receive."'
"What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe

that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."
BOB DOYLE
The law of attraction, the study and practice of the law of
attraction, is just figuring out what will help you generate
the feelings of having it now. Go test drive that car. Go shop
for that home. Get in the house. Do whatever you have to do
to generate the feelings of having it now, and remember them.
Whatever you can do to achieve that will help you to literally
attract it.
When you feel as though you have it now, and the feeling is so real
that it is like you have it already, you are believing that you have
received/ and you will receive.
BOB DOYLE
It could be you wake up and it's just there. It's manifested. Or,
you might get some inspired idea of some action to take. You
certainly shouldn't be saying, "Well, I could do it this way,
but man, I would hate that." You 're not on the right track if
that's the case.
Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing

it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's
going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will
just stop. You could do it all day.
Action is a word that can imply "work" to some people, but in-
spired action will not feel like work at all. The difference between
inspired action and action is this: Inspired action is when you are
acting to receive. If you are in action to try and make it happen,
you have slipped backward. Inspired action is effortless, and it
feels wonderful because you are on the frequency of receiving.
Imagine life as a fast-moving riven When you are acting to make

something happen it will feel as if you are going against the current
of the river. It will feel hard and like a struggle. When you are act-
ing to receive from the Universe, you will feel as if you are flowing
with the current of the river. It will feel effortless. That is the feel-
ing of inspired action, and of being in the flow of the Universe and
life.
Sometimes you will not even be aware you used "action" until
after you've received, because the acting felt so good. You will then
look back and see the wonder and matrix of how the Universe car-
ried you to what you wanted, and also brought what you wanted
to you.
DR. JOE VlTALE

The Universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess.
Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse
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is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, act.

That's your job. And that's all you have to do.
Trust your instincts. It's the Universe inspiring you. It's the Universe
communicating with you on the receiving frequency. If you have an
intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the
Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you asked for.
BOB PROCTOR
You will attract everything that you require. If it's money you
need you will attract it. If it's people you need you'll attract
it. If it's a certain book you need you'll attract it. You've got
to pay attention to what you're attracted to, because as you
hold images of what you want, you're going to be attracted to
things and they're going to be attracted to you. But it literally
moves into physical reality with and through you. And it does
that by law.
Remember that you are a magnet, attracting everything to you.

When you have gotten clear in your mind about what you want
you have become a magnet to draw those things to you, and those
things you want are magnetized to you in return. The more you
practice and begin to see the law of attraction bringing things to
you, the greater the magnet you will become, because you will add
the power of faith, belief, and knowing.

You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of no
way, a way will be made.
All you require is You, and your ability to think things into being.
Everything that has been invented and created throughout the
history of humankind began with one thought. From that one
thought a way was made, and it manifested from the invisible
into the visible.
JACK CANFIELD
Think of a car driving through the night The headlights only
go a hundred to two hundred feet forward, and you can make
it all the way from California to New York driving through
the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred
feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just
trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that,
and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your
life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to
the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you
want it.
Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no
idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret onto
the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the
outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and every-
thing that we needed to create The Secret came to us.
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see

the whole staircase. Just take the first step."
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Let's look at using the Creative Process for those who feel they are
overweight and who want to lose weight.
The first thing to know is that if you focus on losing weight, you
will attract back having to lose more weight so get "having to lose
weight" out of your mind. It's the very reason why diets don't
work. Because you are focused on losing weight, you must attract
back continually having to lose weight.
The second thing to know is that the condition of being over-

weight was created through your thought to it. To put it in the most
basic terms, if someone is overweight, it came from thinking "fat
thoughts/' whether that person was aware of it or not. A person can-
not think "thin thoughts" and be fat. It completely defies the law of
attraction.
Whether people have been told they have a slow thyroid, a slow
metabolism, or their body size is hereditary, these are all disguises
for thinking "fat thoughts." If you accept any of those conditions as
applicable to you, and you believe it, it must become your experi-
ence, and you will continue to attract being overweight.
After I had my two daughters I was overweight, and I know it

came from listening to and reading the messages that it is hard to
lose weight after having a baby, and even harder after the second
baby. I summoned exactly that to me with those "fat thoughts,"
and it became my experience. I really "beefed up," and the more I

noticed how I had "beefed up," the more "beefing up" I attracted.
With a small frame, I became a hefty 143 pounds, all because I was
thinking "fat thoughts."
The most common thought that people hold, and I held it too, is
that food was responsible for my weight gain. That is a belief that
does not serve you, and in my mind now it is complete balderdash!
Food is not responsible for putting on weight. It is your thought that
food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put
on weight. Remember, thoughts are primary cause of everything,
and the rest is effects from those thoughts. Think perfect thoughts
and the result must be perfect weight.
Let go of all those limiting thoughts. Food cannot cause you to put
on weight unless you think it can.
The definition of the perfect weight is the weight that feels good for
you. No one else's opinion counts. It is the weight that feels good
for you.
You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats like a horse,
and they proudly declare, "I can eat whatever I want and I am al-
ways the perfect weight." And so the Genie of the Universe says,
To attract your perfect weight and body using the Creative Process,
follow these steps:
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Get clear on the weight you want to be. Have a picture in your
mind of what you will look like when you have become that per-
fect weight. Get pictures of yourself at your perfect weight, if you
have them, and look at them often. If not, get pictures of the body
you would like to have and look at those often.
You must believe you will receive and that the perfect weight is
yours already. You must imagine, pretend, act as if, make-believe,
that the perfect weight is yours. You must see yourself as receiving
that perfect weight.
Write out your perfect weight and place it over the readout of your
scale, or don't weigh yourself at all. Do not contradict what you
have asked for with your thoughts, words, and actions. Don't buy
clothes at your current weight. Have faith and focus on the clothes
you are going to buy. Attracting the perfect weight is the same
as placing an order with the catalogue of the Universe. You look
through the catalogue, choose the perfect weight, place your order,
and then it is delivered to you.
Make it your intention to look for, admire, and inwardly praise

people with your idea of perfect-weight bodies. Seek them out and
as you admire them and feel the feelings of that—you are summon-
ing it to you. If you see people who are overweight, do not observe
them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in
your perfect body and feel it.
You must feel good. You must feel good about You. This is impor-
tant, because you cannot attract your perfect weight if you feel bad
about your body now. If you feel bad about your body, that is a
powerful feeling, and you will continue to attract feeling bad about
your body. You will never change your body if you are critical of
it and find fault with it, and in fact you will attract more weight to
you. Praise and bless every square inch of your body. Think about
all the perfect things about You. As you think perfect thoughts, as
you feel good about You, you are on the frequency of your perfect
weight, and you are summoning perfection.
Wallace Wattles shares a wonderful tip about eating in one of his

books. He recommends that when you eat, make sure you are en-
tirely focused on the experience of chewing the food. Keep your
mind present and experience the sensation of eating food, and
do not allow your mind to drift to other things. Be present in
your body and enjoy all the sensations of chewing the food in
your mouth and swallowing it. Try it the next time you are eat-
ing. When you are completely present as you eat, the flavor of the
food is so intense and magnificent; when you let your mind drift.
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the flavor virtually disappears. I am convinced that if we can eat

our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable expe-
rience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly,
and the result in our bodies must be perfection.
The end of the story about my own weight is that I now maintain
my perfect weight of 116 pounds and I can eat whatever I want. So,
focus on your perfect weight!
DR. JOE VlTALE

Another thing people wonder about is, "How long will it take
to manifest the car, the relationship, the money?" I don't have
any rulebook that says it's going to take thirty minutes or
three days or thirty days. It's more a matter of you being in
alignment with the Universe itself.
Time is just an illusion. Einstein told us that. If this is the first time
you have heard it, you may find it a hard concept to get your head
around, because you see everything happening—one thing after
the other. What quantum physicists and Einstein tell us is that ev-
erything is happening simultaneously. If you can understand that
there is no time, and accept that concept, then you will see that
whatever you want in the future already exists. If everything is
happening at the one time, then the parallel version of you with
what you want already exists!
It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. Any
time delay you experience is due to your delay in getting to the
place of believing, knowing, and feeling that you already have it. It
is you getting yourself on the frequency of what you want When
you are on that frequency, then what you want will appear.
BOB DOYLE
Size is nothing to the Universe. It is no more difficult to
attract, on a scientific level, something that we consider huge
to something that we consider infinitesimally small.
The Universe does everything with zero effort. The grass

doesn't strain to grow. It's effortless. It's just this great design.
It's all about what's going on in your mind. It's about what
we put in place, saying, ''This is big, it's going to take some
time." And, "This is small. I'll give it an hour." Those are
our rules that we define. There are no rules according to the
Universe. You provide the feelings of having it now; it will
respond—whatever it is.
There is no time for the Universe and there is no size for the Uni-
verse. It is as easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one
million dollars. It is the same process, and the only reason why
one may come faster and the other may take longer is because you
thought that a million dollars was a lot of money and that one dol-
lar was not very much.
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BOB DOYLE
Some people have an easier time with little things, and so we
sometimes say start with something small, like a cup of coffee.
Make it your intention to attract a cup of coffee today.
BOB PROCTOR
Hold an image of talking to an old friend that you haven't
seen for a long time. Somehow or another somebody's going to
start talking to you about that person. That person's going to
phone you or you'll get a letter from her.
Starting with something small is an easy way to experience the law

of attraction with your own eyes. Let me share a story with you of
a young man who did exactly that. He watched The Secret and he
decided to start with something small.
He created a picture of a feather in his mind / and he made sure this

feather was unique. He created particular markings on the feather
so he would know without any doubt that if he saw this feather,
it had come to him through his intentional use of the law of at-
traction.
Two days later, he was about to walk into a high-rise building on

a street in New York City. He said he did not know why, but he
just happened to look down. There at his feet, at the entrance to a
high-rise building in New York City, was the feather! Not just any
feather, but the exact feather he had imagined. It was identical to
the picture he had created in his mind, with all of its unique mark-
ings. In that moment he knew, without a shred of doubt, that this
was the law of attraction working in all its glory. He realized his
amazing ability and power to attract something to himself through
the power of his mind. With total faith, he has now moved onto
creating much bigger things.
DAVID SCHIRMER
INVESTMENT TRAINER, TEACHER.
AND WEALTH SPECIALIST
People are amazed at how I line up parking
spaces. I've done this right from when I first
understood The Secret. I would visualize a parking space
exactly where I wanted it, and 95 percent of the time it would
be therefore me and I would just pull straight in. Five percent
of the time I'd have to wait just a minute or two, and the
person would pull out and I'd pull in, I do that all the time.
Now you might understand why a person who says, "I always get
parking spaces," gets them. Or why a person who says, "I am re-
ally lucky, I win things all the time," wins one thing after another,
all the time. These people expect it. Begin to expect great things, and
as you do, you will create your life in advance.
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You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in ad-
vance, right down to the next thing you are doing today Prentice
Mulford, a teacher whose writings share so many insights into the
law of attraction and how to use it, demonstrates how important it
is to think your day in advance.
"When you say to yourself 'I am going to have

a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey/ you are
literally sending elements and forces ahead
of your body that will arrange things to make
your visit or journey pleasant. When before the
visit or the journey or the shopping trip you
are in a bad humor, or fearful or apprehensive
of something unpleasant, you are sending
unseen agencies ahead of you which will make
some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts,
or in other words, our state of mind, is ever
at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in
advance."
Prentice Mulford wrote those words in the 1870s. What a pioneer!

You can see clearly how important it is to think in advance every
event in every day. You will no doubt have experienced the oppo-
site of thinking your day in advance, and one of the repercussions

of that is having to rush and hurry.
If you are rushing or hurrying, know that those thoughts and ac-
tions are based in fear (fear of being late) and you are "fixing up"
bad things ahead for you. As you continue to rush, you will attract
one bad thing after another into your path. In addition to that, the
law of attraction is "fixing up" more future circumstances that will
cause you to rush and hurry. You must stop and move yourself off
that frequency. Take a few moments and shift yourself, if you don't
want to summon bad things to you.
Many people, particularly in Western societies, chase "time" and

complain that they don't have enough time. Well, as someone says
that they don't have enough time, so it must be by the law of at-
traction. If you have been chasing your tail with thoughts of not
having enough time, from now on declare emphatically, "I have
more than enough time," and change your life.
You can also turn waiting into a powerful time to create your fu-
ture life. Next time you are in a situation where you are waiting,
seize that time and imagine having all the things you want. You
can do this anywhere, anytime. Turn every life situation into a
positive one!
Make it a daily habit to determine every event in your life in advance,

through your thoughts. Set the Universal forces ahead of you in every-
thing you do and everywhere you go, by thinking the way you want
it to go in advance. Then you are creating your life intentionally.
• Like Aladdin's Genie, the law of attraction grants our every
command.
• The Creative Process helps you create what you want in three sim-
ple steps: ask, believe, and receive.
• Asking the Universe for what you want is your opportunity to get
clear about what you want. As you get clear in your mind, you have
asked.
• Believing involves acting, speaking, and thinking as though you

have already received what you've asked for. When you emit the
frequency of having received it, the law of attraction moves people,
events, and circumstances for you to receive.
• Receiving involves feeling the way you will feel once your desire
has manifested. Feeling good now puts you on the frequency of what
you want.
• To lose weight, don't focus on "losing weight." Instead, focus on

your perfect weight. Feel the feelings of your perfect weight, and
you will summon it to you.
• It takes no time for the Universe to manifest what you want. It is as

easy to manifest one dollar as it is to manifest one million dollars.
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• Starting with something small, like a cup of coffee or parking
spaces, is an easy way to experience the law of attraction in action.
Powerfully intend to attract something small As you experience the
power you have to attract, you will move on to creating much big-
ger things.
• Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go,
and you will create your life intentionally.
DR. JOE VITALE
A lot of people feel stuck or imprisoned or confined by their
current circumstances. Whatever your circumstances right
now, that is only your current reality, and current reality will
begin to change as a result of beginning to use The Secret
Your current reality or your current life is a result of the thoughts

you have been thinking. All of that will totally change as you begin
to change your thoughts and your feelings.
"That a man can change himself... and master his

own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who
is wide-awake to the power of right thought."
(1866-1954)
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LISA NICHOLS
When you want to change your circumstances, you must
first change your thinking. Every time you look inside
your mail expecting to see a bill, guess what — it'll be
there. Each day you go out dreading the bill! You're never
expecting anything great. You're thinking debt, you're
expecting debt. So debt must show up so you won't think
you're crazy. And every day you confirm your thought: Is
debt going to be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to
be there? Yes, debt's there. Is debt going to be there? Yes,
debt's there. Wiry? Because you expected debt to be there.
So it showed up, because the law of attraction is always
being obedient to your thoughts. Do yourself a favor—
expect a check!
Expectation is a powerful attractive force, because it draws things

to you. As Bob Proctor says, "Desire connects you with the thing
desired and expectation draws it into your life." Expect the things
you want and don't expect the things you don't want. What do
you expect now?
JAMES RAY
Most people look at their current state of affairs and they
say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's
who you were. Let's say for instance that you don't
have enough money in your bank account, or you don't
have the relationship that you want, or your health and
fitness aren't up to par. That's not who you are; that's the
residual outcome of your past thoughts and actions. So
we're constantly living in this residual, if you will, of the

thoughts and actions we've taken in the past. When you
look at your current state of affairs and define yourself by
that, then you doom yourself to have nothing more than
the same in future.
'"All that we are is a result of what we have

thought."
I would like to share a process with you that came from the great
teacher Neville Goddard in a lecture he delivered in 1954, entitled
"The Pruning Shears of Revision." This process has had a pro-
found effect on my life. Neville recommends at the end of every
day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the
day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted,
replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you re-
create those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are
cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a
new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally
created new pictures for your future. It is never too late to change
the pictures.
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DR. JOE VITALE

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life
around? The very first thing is to start making a list of
things to be grateful for. This shifts your energy and starts to
shift your thinking. Whereas before this exercise you might
be focusing on what you don't have, your complaints, and
your problems, you go in a different direction when you do
this exercise. You start to be grateful for all the things that
you feel good about.
"If it is a new thought to you that gratitude

brings your whole mind into closer harmony
with the creative energies of the Universe,
consider it well, and you will see that it is true.'
MARCI SHIMOFF
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into
your life.
DR- JOHN GRAY

PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR, AND
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
Every man knows that when his wife is
appreciating him for the little things that he does, what
does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about
appreciation. It pulls things in. It attracts support.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about.
JAMES RAY
Gratitude has been such a powerful exercise for me. Every
morning I get up and say "Thank you." Every morning,
when my feet hit the floor, "Thank you." And then I start
running through what I'm grateful for, as I'm brushing
my teeth and doing the things I do in the morning. And I'm
not just thinking about them and doing some rote routine.
I'm putting it out there and I'm feeling the feelings of
gratitude.
The day we filmed James Ray sharing his powerful exercise of

gratitude is one I will never forget. From that day on, I made
James's process my life. Every morning, I do not get out bed until
I have felt the feelings of gratitude for this brand new day and all I
am grateful for in my life. Then as I get out of bed, when one foot
touches the ground I say, "Thank," and "you" as my second foot
touches the ground. With each step I take on my way to the bath-
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room, I say "Thank you." I continue to say and feel "Thank you" as
I am showering and getting ready. By the time I am ready for the
day, I have said "Thank you" hundreds of times.
As I do this, I am powerfully creating my day and all that it will

contain. I am setting my frequency for the day and intentionally
declaring the way I want my day to go, rather than stumbling out
of bed and letting the day take control of me. There is no more
powerful way to begin your day than this. You are the creator of
your life, and so begin by intentionally creating your day!
Gratitude was a fundamental part of the teachings of all the great

avatars throughout history. In the book that changed my life, The
Science of Getting Rich, written by Wallace Wattles in 1910, gratitude
is its longest chapter. Every teacher featured in The Secret uses grat-
itude as part of his or her day. Most of them begin their day with
thoughts and feelings of gratitude.
Joe Sugarman, a wonderful man and successful entrepreneur,

watched the film The Secret and contacted me. He told me his fa-
vorite part was the gratitude process, and that his use of gratitude
had contributed to all he had achieved in his life. With all the success
Joe has attracted to himself, he continues to use gratitude every day,
even for the smallest things. When he gets a parking space he always
says and feels, "Thank you." Joe knows the power of gratitude and
all it has brought to him, and so gratitude is his way of life.
With all that I have read and with all that I have experienced in my
own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above eve-
rything else. If you only do one thing with the knowledge of The
Secret use gratitude until it becomes your way of life.
DR. JOE VITALE

As soon as you start to feel different about what you already
have, you will start to attract more of the good things. More
of the things you can he grateful for. You could look around
and say, "Well, I don't have the car I want. I don't have the
house I want. I don't have the spouse I want. I don't have the
health I want" Whoah! Back up, back up! Those are all the
things you don't want. Focus on what you already have that
you're grateful for. And it might be that you have the eyes
to read this. It might be the clothes that you have. Yes, you
might prefer something else and you might get something
else pretty soon, if you start feeling grateful for what you
have.
"Many people who order their lives rightly in all

other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of
gratitude."
It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling un-
grateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and
feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
Whether it is jealousy, resentment, dissatisfaction, or feelings of
"not enough" those feelings cannot bring you what you want.
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They can only return to you more of what you do not want. Those
negative emotions are blocking your own good coming to you. If
you want a new car but you are not grateful for the car you have,
that will be the dominant frequency you are sending out.
Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all
the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at
the never-ending thoughts that come back to you of more things
to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of at-
traction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just
like them. You will have locked into the frequency of gratitude and
all good things will be yours.
"The daily practice of gratitude is one of the

conduits by which your wealth will come to
you."
LEE BROWER
WEALTH TRAINER A N D SPECIALIST,
AUTHOR. AN D TEACH ER
I think everybody goes through times when
they say, "Things aren 't working right," or,
"Things are going had." Once, when there were some
things going on in my family, I found a rock, and I just sat
holding it. I took this rock, I stuck it in my pocket, and I said,
"Every time I touch this rock I'm going to think of something
that I'm grateful for." So every morning when I get up in the

morning, I pick it up off the dresser, I put it in my pocket, and
I go through the things that I'm grateful for. At night, what
do I do? I empty my pocket, and there it is again.
I've had some amazing experiences with this idea. A guy from
South Africa saw me drop it. He asked, "What is that?" I
explained it to him, and he started calling it a gratitude rock.
Two weeks later I got an email from him, in South Africa.
And he said, "My son is dying from a rare disease. It's a
type of hepatitis. Would you send me three gratitude rocks?"
They were just ordinary rocks I found off the street, so I said,
"Sure." I had to make sure that the rocks were very special, so
I went out to the stream, picked out the right rocks, and sent
them off to him.
Four or five months later I get an email from him. He said,

"My son's better, he's doing terrific." And he said, "But you
need to know something. We've sold over a thousand rocks at
ten dollars apiece as gratitude rocks, and we've raised all this
money for charity. Thank you very much."
So it's very important to have an "attitude of gratitude."
The great scientist Albert Einstein revolutionized the way we view

time, space, and gravity. From his poor background and poor be-
ginnings, you would have thought it impossible for him to achieve
all that he did. Einstein knew a great deal of The Secret, and he
said, "Thank you" hundreds of times each day. He thanked all
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the great scientists who had preceded him for their contributions,
which had enabled him to learn and achieve even more in his
work, and eventually become one of the greatest scientists who
has ever lived.
One of the most powerful uses of gratitude can be incorporated in

the Creative Process to turbo-charge what you want. As Bob Proc-
tor advised in the first step of the Creative Process, Ask, start by
writing down what you want. "Begin each sentence with, I am so
happy and grateful now that..." (and you fill in the rest).
When you give thanks as though you have already received what
you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe. That
signal is saying that you have it already because you are feeling
gratitude for it now. Each morning before you get out of bed, make
it a habit to feel the feelings of gratitude in advance for the great day
ahead, as though it is done.
From the moment I discovered The Secret and formulated the vi-
sion to share this knowledge with the world, I gave thanks every
day for the film The Secret, which would bring joy to the world. I
had no idea how we would bring this knowledge to the screen, but
trusted that we would attract the way. I stayed focused and held
to the outcome. I felt deep feelings of gratitude in advance. As that
became my state of being, the floodgates opened and all the magic
flowed into our lives. For the magnificent team of The Secret, and
for me, our deep, heartfelt feelings of gratitude continue to this
day. We have become a team that resonates gratitude with every
moment, and it has become our way of life.
Visualization is a process that has been taught by all the great

teachers and avatars throughout the centuries, as well as by all the
great teachers living today. In Charles Haanel's book, The Master
Key System, written in 1912, he gives twenty-four weekly exercises
to master visualization. (More important, his complete Master Key
System will also help you become the master of your thoughts.)
The reason visualization is so powerful is because as you create

pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want,
you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visu-
alization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it
causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you
are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The
law of attraction will take hold of that powerful signal and return
those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY

I took the visualization process from the Apollo program,
and instituted it during the 1980s and '90s into the Olympic
program. It was called Visual Motor Rehearsal.
When you visualize then you materialize. Here's an

interesting thing about the mind: we took Olympic athletes
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and had them run their event only in their mind, and then
hooked them up to sophisticated biofeedback equipment.
Incredibly, the same muscles fired in the same sequence when
they were running the race in their mind as when they were
running it on the track. How could this be? Because the mind
can't distinguish whether you're really doing it or whether it's
just a practice. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there
in the body.
Think about the inventors and their inventions: The Wright

Brothers and the plane. George Eastman and film. Thomas
Edison and the light bulb. Alexander Graham Bell and the tele-
phone. The only way anything has ever been invented or cre-
ated is because one person saw a picture in his mind. He saw it
clearly, and by holding that picture of the end result in his mind,
all the forces of the Universe brought his invention into the
world, through him.
These men knew The Secret. These were men who had utter faith
in the invisible, and who knew the power within them to leverage
the Universe and bring the invention into the visible. Their faith
and their imagination have been the cause of the evolution of hu-
mankind, and we reap the benefits of their creative minds every
single day.
You may be thinking, "I do not have a mind like these great in-
ventors." You may be thinking, "They could imagine those things,
but I can't." You could not be further from the truth, and as you
continue on this great discovery of the knowledge of The Secret,
you will learn that you not only have the mind they had, but
much more.
MIKE DOOLEY
When you 're visualizing, token you 've got that picture
playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the
end result.
Here's an example. Look at the back of your hands, right now.

Really look at the back of your hands: the color of your skin,
the freckles, the blood vessels, the rings, the fingernails. Take
in all those details. Right before you close your eyes, see those
hands, your fingers, wrapping around the steering wheel of
your brand new car.
DR. JOE VITALE

This is such a holographic experience—so real in this
moment—that you don't even feel as if you need the car,
because it feels like you have it already.
Dr. Vitale's words brilliantly sum up the place you want to get
yourself to when visualizing. When it feels like a jolt as you open
your eyes in the physical world, your visualization became real.
But that state, that plane, is the real. It is the field where everything
is created, and the physical is just the result of the real held of all
creation. That's why you won't feel as if you need it anymore, be-
cause you tuned in and felt the real field of creation through your
visualization. In that field, you have everything now. When you
feel that, you will know it.
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JACK CAN FIELD
It's the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just
the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, "If I think
positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that
will be enough." But if you're doing that and still not feeling
abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn't create the
power of the attraction.
BOB DOYLE
You put yourself in the feeling place of really being in that
car. Not "I wish I could get that car," or, "Some day I'll have
that car," because that's a very definite feeling associated with
that. It's not in the now. It's in the future. If you stay in that
feeling, it will always be in the future.

. Now that feeling and that inner seeing will begin to be an
open doorway through which the power of the Universe will
begin to express.
"What this power is I cannot say. All know is

that it exists."
JACK CANFIELD
Our job is not to figure out the how. The how will show up
out of a commitment and belief in the what.
MIKE DOOLEY
The "hows" are the domain of the Universe. It always knows
the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between
you and your dream.
DR. JOE VITALE

If you turn it over to the Universe, you will be surprised and
dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and
miracles happen.
The teachers of The Secret are all aware of the elements you bring
into play when you visualize. As you see the picture in your mind
and feel it, you are bringing yourself to a place of believing you
have it now. You are also implementing trust and faith in the Uni-
verse, because you are focusing on the end result and experiencing
the feeling of that, without giving any attention whatsoever to
"how" it will come about. Your picture in your mind is seeing it
as done. Your feelings are seeing it as done. Your mind and your
entire state of being are seeing it as already happened. That is the art
of visualization.
DR. JOE VITALE

You want to do this virtually daily, but it should never
be a chore. What's really important to the whole Secret is
feeling good. You want to feel exhilarated by this whole
process. You want to be high, happy, in tune, as much as
possible.
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Everyone has the power to visualize. Let me prove it to you with

a picture of a kitchen. For this to work, first of all you have to get
all thoughts of your kitchen out of your mind. Do not think of your
kitchen. Totally clear your mind of pictures of your kitchen, with
its cupboards, refrigerator, oven, tiles, and color scheme . . .
You saw a picture of your kitchen in your mind, didn't you? Well,
then you just visualized!
"Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or

not. Visualizing is the great secret of success."
Here's a tip about visualizing, which Dr. John Demartini shares in

his Breakthrough Experience seminars. John said that if you create
a static picture in your mind it can be difficult to hold that picture,
so create lots of movement in your picture.
To illustrate this, imagine your kitchen again, and this time imag-
ine yourself entering that kitchen, walking to the refrigerator and
putting your hand on the door handle, opening the door, looking
inside, and finding a cold bottle of water. Reach in and grab it. You
can feel the coldness on your hand as you grasp the bottle. You
have the bottle of water in one hand, and you use your other hand
to close the refrigerator door. Now that you are visualizing your
kitchen with detail and movement it's easier to see and hold the
picture, isn't it?
"We all possess more power and greater

possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is
one of the greatest of these powers."
MARCI SHIMOFF
The only difference between people who live in this way, who
live in the magic of life, and those who don't is that the people
who live in the magic of life have habituated ways of being.
They've made a habit of using the law of attraction, and magic
happens with them wherever they go. Because they remember
to use it. They use it all the time, not just as a one-time event.
Here are two true stories that clearly demonstrate the powerful law
of attraction and the immaculate matrix of the Universe in action.
The first story is about a woman named Jeannie, who bought a

DVD of The Secret and was watching it at least once a day so that
she would absorb the message right into the cells of her body. She
was particularly impressed with Bob Proctor, and she thought it
would be wonderful to meet him.
One morning Jeannie collected her mail, and to her utter amaze-
ment the mailman had accidentally delivered Bob Proctor's mail
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to her address. What Jeannie didn't know is that Bob Proctor lived
just four blocks away from her! Not only that, but Jeannie's house
number was the same number as Bob's. She immediately took
the mail to deliver it to the correct address. Can you imagine her
utter delight when the door opened and Bob Proctor was standing
before her? Bob is rarely at home as he travels all over the world
teaching, but the matrix of the Universe knows only perfect timing.
From Jeannie's thought of how wonderful it would be to meet Bob
Proctor, the law of attraction moved people, circumstances, and
events throughout the Universe so that it happened.
The second story involves a ten-year-old boy named Colin, who

had seen and loved The Secret. Colin's family made a weeklong
visit to Disney World, and on their first day they experienced long
lines at the park. So that night, just before Colin fell asleep, he
thought, "Tomorrow I'd love to go on all the big rides and never
have to wait in line."
The next morning, Colin and his family were at the gates of
Epcot Center as the park opened, and a Disney staff member ap-
proached and asked them if they would be Epcot's First Family of
the Day. As First Family they would be given VIP status, a special
escort by a staff member, and walk-on passes for every big ride in
Epcot. It was everything and more that Colin had wished for!
Hundreds of families were waiting to enter Epcot that morning,

but Colin didn't have the slightest doubt as to why his family had
been chosen First Family. He knew it was because he had used The
Secret.
Imagine discovering—at the age of ten—that the power to move

worlds lies within you!
"Nothing can prevent your picture from coming

into concrete form except the same power which
gave it birth—yourself."
JAMES RAY
People hold that for a while; and they're really a champion
at it. They say, "I'm fired up. I saw this program and I'm
going to change my life." And yet results aren't showing.
Beneath the surface it's just about ready to break through, but
the person will look just at the surface results and say, "This
stuff doesn 't work." And you know what? The Universe says,
"Your wish is my command," and it disappears.
When you allow a thought of doubt to enter your mind, the law
of attraction will soon line up one doubtful thought after another.
The moment a thought of doubt comes, release it immediately.
Send that thought on its way. Replace it with "I know I am receiving
now." And feel it.
JOHN ASSARAF
Knowing the law of attraction, I wanted to really put it to
use and to see what would happen. In 1995 I started to create
something called a Vision Board, where I take something that
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I want to achieve, or something that I want to attract, like

a car or a watch or the soul mate of my dreams, and I put a
picture of what I want up on this board. Every day I would
sit in my office and I would look up at this board and I would
start to visualize. I would really get into the state of having
already acquired it.
I was getting ready to move. We put all the furniture, all the
boxes, into storage, and I made three different moves over a
period of five years. And then I ended up in California and
bought this house, renovated it for a year, and then had all
the stuff brought from my farmer home five years earlier. One
morning my son Keenan came into my office, and one of the
boxes that was sealed for five years was right at the doorstep.
He asked, "What's in the boxes, Daddy?" And I said, "Those
are my Vision Boards/' He then asked, "What's a Vision
Board?" I said, "Well, it's where I put alt my goals up. I cut
them out and I put all my goals up as something that I want
to achieve in my life." Of course at five and a half years old
he didn't understand, and so I said, "Sweetheart, let me just
show you, that'll be the easiest way to do it."
I cut the box open, and on one Vision Board was a picture
of a home that I was visualizing five years earlier. What was
shocking was that we were living in that house. Not a house
like it—I actually bought my dream home, renovated it, and
didn't even know it. I looked at that house and I started to
cry, because I was just blown away. Keenan asked, "Why are
you crying?" "I finally understand how the law of attraction
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works. I finally understand the power of visualization. I

finally understand everything that I've read, everything that
I've worked with my whole life, the way I've built companies.
It worked for my home as well, and I bought our dream home
and didn 't even know it."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of

life's coming attractions."
You can let your imagination go wild with a Vision Board, and
place pictures of all the things you want, and pictures of how you
want your life to be. Make sure you put the Vision Board in a place
where you see it and look at it every day as John Assaraf did. Feel
the feelings of having those things now. As you receive, and feel
gratitude for receiving, you can remove pictures and add new
ones. This is a wonderful way to introduce children to the law of
attraction. I hope the creation of a Vision Board inspires parents
and teachers worldwide.
One of the people on The Secret website Forum put a picture of

The Secret DVD on his Vision Board. He had seen The Secret but
didn't own his own copy. Two days after he created his Vision
Board, I felt inspired to post a notice on The Secret Forum giving
away DVDs to the first ten people who posted. He was one of the
ten! He had received a copy of The Secret DVD within two days of
putting it on his Vision Board. Whether it is a DVD of The Secret or
a house, the joy of creating and receiving is magnificent!
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Another powerful example of visualizing comes from my moth-

er's experience of buying a new house. Several people besides
my mother had put in offers for this particular house. My mother
decided to use The Secret to make that house hers. She sat down
and wrote her name and the new address of the house over and
over. She continued doing this until it felt as though it was her ad-
dress. She then imagined placing all of her furniture in that new
house. Within hours of doing these things, she received a phone
call saying her offer had been accepted. She was so thrilled, but it
didn't come as a surprise to her because she knew that house was
hers. What a champion!
JACK CAN FIELD

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you
deserve it and believe it's possible for you. And then close
your eyes every day for several minutes, and visualize having
what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having
it. Come out of that and focus on what you're grateful for
already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release
it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out
how to manifest it.
Expectation is a powerful attractive force. Expect the things you
want, and don't expect the things you don't want.
Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bring-

ing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you
already have, and you will attract more good things.
Giving thanks for what you want in advance turbo-charges your

desires and sends a more powerful signal out into the Universe.
Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of

yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you gener-
ate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of at-
traction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your
mind.
To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual

way of being, not just a one-time event.
At the end of every day, before you go to sleep, go back through the
events of the day. Any events or moments that were not what you
wanted, replay them in your mind the way you wanted them to go.
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"Whatever the mind . . . can conceive it can
achieve."
JACK CANFIELD
The Secret was a real transformation for me, because I grew
up with a very negative father who thought that rich people
were people that had ripped everyone off and thought that
anyone that had money must have deceived somebody. So I
grew up with a lot of beliefs about money; that if you had it,
it made you bad, only evil people have money, and money
doesn't grow on trees. "Who do you think I am, Rockefeller?'
That was one of his favorite phrases. So I grew up truly
believing that life was difficult. It was only when I met W.
Clement Stone that I began to shift my life.
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When I was working with Stone he said, "I want you to set a
goal that's so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your
mind, and you would knew it's only because of what I've
taught you that you would have achieved this goal" At the
time I was making about eight thousand dollars a year, so I
said, "I want to make a hundred thousand dollars in a year."
Now, I had no idea how I could do that. I saw no strategy,
no possibility, but I just said, "I'm going to declare that, I'm
going to believe it, I'm going to act as if it's true, and release
it" So I did that.
One of the things he taught me was every day to close your

eyes and visualize the goals as if it's already achieved. I had
actually made a hundred-thousand-dollar bill that I'd put on
the ceiling. So first thing in the morning I'd look up and there
it was, and it would remind me that this was my intention.
Then I would close my eyes and visualize having this hundred-
thousand-dollar-a-year lifestyle. Interestingly enough, nothing
major happened for about thirty days. I didn't have any great
breakthrough ideas, no one was offering me more money.
About four weeks into it, I had a hundred-thousand-dollar

idea. It just came right into my head. I had a book I had
written, and I said, "If I can sell four hundred thousand
copies of my book at a quarter each, that'd be a hundred
thousand dollars." Now, the book was there, but I never had
this thought. (One of The Secrets is that when you have an
inspired thought, you have to trust it and act on it.) I didn't
know how I was going to sell four hundred thousand copies.
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Then I saw the National Enquirer at the supermarket. I had

seen that millions of times and it was just background. And
all of a sudden it jumped out at me as foreground. I thought,
"If readers knew about my book, certainly four hundred
thousand people would go out and buy it."
About six weeks later I gave a talk at Hunter College in

New York to six hundred teachers, and afterward a woman
approached me and said, "That was a great talk. I want to
interview you. Let me give you my card." As it turns out, she
was a freelance writer who sold her stories to the National
Enquirer. The theme from "The Twilight Zone" went off in
my head, like, whoah, this stuff's really working. That article
came out and our book sales started to take off.
The point I want to make is that I was attracting into my life

all these different events, including this person. To make a
long story short, I did not make a hundred thousand dollars
that year. We made ninety-two thousand three hundred and
twenty-seven dollars. But do you think we were depressed and
saying, "This doesn't work"? No, we were saying, "This is
amazing!" So my wife said to me, "If it works for a hundred
thousand, do you think it'd work for a million ?" And I said,
"I don't know, I think so. Let's try it."
My publisher wrote me a royalty check for our first Chicken

Soup for the Soul book. And he actually put a smiley face in
his signature, because it was the first million-dollar check he'd
ever written.
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So I know from my own experience, became I wanted to test it

Does this Secret really work? We put it to the test. It absolutely
worked, and now I live my life from that every single day.
The knowledge of The Secret and the intentional use of the law of
attraction can be applied to every single subject in your life. It is the
same process for everything you want to create, and the subject of
money is no different.
To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to

bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not
have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that
you do not have enough. Focus on not enough money, and you will
create untold more circumstances of not having enough money.
You must focus on the abundance of money to bring that to you.
You have to emit a new signal with your thoughts, and those
thoughts should be that you currently have more than enough. You
really do need to call your imagination into play and make believe
you already have the money you want. And it is so much fun to do!
You will notice as you pretend and play games of having wealth
that you feel instantly better about money, and as you feel better
about it, it will begin to flow into your life.
Jack's wonderful story inspired The Secret Team to create a blank

check available as a free download on The Secret website, www
.thesecret.tv. The blank check is for you, and it is from the Bank of
the Universe. You fill in your name, the amount, and details, and
place it in a prominent place where you will see it every day. When
you look at the check, feel the feelings of having that money now.
Imagine spending that money, all the things you will buy and the
things you will do. Feel how wonderful that is! Know it is yours,
because when you ask, it is. We have received hundreds of stories
from people who have brought huge sums of money to them using
The Secret check. It's a fun game that works!
The only reason any person does not have enough money is be-
cause they are blocking money from coming to them with their
thoughts. Every negative thought, feeling, or emotion is blocking
your good from coming to you, and that includes money. It is not
that the money is being kept from you by the Universe, because all
the money you require exists right now in the invisible. If you do
not have enough, it is because you are stopping the flow of money
coming to you, and you are doing that with your thoughts. You
must tip the balance of your thoughts from lack-of-money to more-
than-enough-money. Think more thoughts of abundance than of
lack, and you have tipped the balance.
When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so

of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract
needing money.
I can speak from experience about money, because just before I

discovered The Secret my accountants told me that my company
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had suffered a major loss that year, and in three months it would
be history. After ten years of hard work, my company was about to
slip through my fingers. And as I needed more money to save my
company, things just got worse. There seemed no way out.
Then I discovered The Secret, and everything in my life—includ-

ing the state of my company—was totally transformed, because I
changed the way I was thinking. As my accountants continued to
fuss about the figures and focus on that, I kept my mind focused on
abundance and all being well. I knew with every fiber of my being
that the Universe would provide, and it did. It provided in ways I
could not have imagined. I had my moments of doubt, but when
the doubt came I immediately moved my thoughts to the outcome
of what I wanted. I gave thanks for it, I felt the joy of it, and I be-
lieved.
I want to let you in on a secret to The Secret. The shortcut to any-

thing you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now! It is the
fastest way to bring money and anything else you want into your
life. Focus on radiating out into the Universe those feelings of joy
and happiness. When you do that, you will attract back to you all
things that bring you joy and happiness, which will not only in-
clude an abundance of money, but everything else you are want-
ing. You must radiate out the signal to bring back what you want.
As you radiate out those feelings of happiness, they will be sent
back to you as the pictures and experiences of your life. The law of
attraction is reflecting back your innermost thoughts and feelings
as your life.
DR. JOE VITALE

/ can imagine what a lot of people are thinking: "How can I
attract more money into my life? How can I get more of the
green stuff? How can I get more of wealth and prosperity?
How can I, when I love my job, deal with the credit card debt
that I have, and the realization that maybe there's a ceiling on
the money that can come in, cause it's coming to me through
my job? How can I bring in more?" Intend it!
This goes back to one of the things we've been talking about
throughout the whole Secret. Your job is to declare what
you would like to have from the catalogue of the Universe. If
cash is one of them, say how much you would like to have. "I
would like to have twenty-five thousand dollars, unexpected
income, within the next thirty days," or whatever it happens
to be. It should be believable for you.
If you have held thoughts in the past that the only way money can
come to you is through your job, then let that go immediately. Can
you appreciate that as you continue to think that, it must be your
experience? Such thoughts do not serve you.
You are now coming to understand that there is abundance for

you, and it is not your job to work out "how" the money will come
to you. It is your job to ask, to believe you are receiving, and feel
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happy now. Leave the details to the Universe on how it will bring
it about.
BOB PROCTOR
Most people have a goal of getting out of debt. That will keep
you in debt forever. Whatever you're thinking about, you will
attract. You say, "But it's get out of debt." I don't care if it's
get out or get in, if you're thinking debt, you're attracting
debt. Set up an automatic debt repayment program and then
start to focus on prosperity.
When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are
going to pay you cannot focus on those bills, because you will con-
tinue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for
you to focus on prosperity despite the bills around you. You have to
find a way of feeling good, so you can bring your good to you.
JAMES RAY
So many times people say to me, "I'd like to double my
income in the next year." But then you look at their
actions and they're not doing the things that are going to
make that happen. They'll turn right around and they'll
say, "I can't afford that." Guess what? "Your wish is my
command."
If the words "I can't afford it" have passed your lips/ your power
to change that is now. Change it with, "I can afford that! I can buy
that!" Say it over and over. Become like a parrot. For the next
thirty days, make it your intention that you are going to look at
everything you like and say to yourself, "I can afford that. I can
buy that." As you see your dream car drive past, say, "I can af-
ford that." As you see clothes you love, as you think about a great
vacation, say, "I can afford that." As you do this you will begin to
shift yourself and you will begin to feel better about money. You
will begin to convince yourself that you can afford those things,
and as you do, the pictures of your life will change.
LISA NICHOLS
When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don't
have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with
your friends, you tell your children that you don't have
enough —"'We don't have enough for that, we can't afford
that"—then you'll never be able to afford it, because you
begin to attract more of what you don't have. If you want
abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance.
Focus on prosperity.
"The spiritual substance from which comes all

visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with
you all the time and responds to your faith in it
and your demands on it."
Now that you know The Secret, when you see someone who is
wealthy you will know that that person's predominant thoughts
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are on wealth and not on scarcity, and that they have drawn wealth
to them—whether they did it consciously or unconsciously. They
focused on thoughts of wealth and the Universe moved people,
circumstances, and events to deliver wealth to them.
The wealth that they have, you have also. The only difference be-
tween you and them is that they thought the thoughts to bring the
wealth to them. Your wealth is waiting for you in the invisible, and
to bring it into the visible, think wealth!
DAVID SCHIRMER
When I first understood The Secret, every day I would get
a bunch of bills in the mail I thought, "How do I turn this
around?" The law of attraction states that what you focus
on you will get, so I got a bank statement, I whited out the
total, and I put a new total in there. I put exactly how much
I wanted to see in the bank. So I thought, "What if I just
visualized checks coming in the mail?" So I just visualized a
bunch of checks coming in the mail Within just one month,
things started to change. It is amazing; today I just get
checks in the mail. I get a few bills, but I get more checks
than bills.
Since the film The Secret was released, we have received hundreds
and hundreds of letters from people who have said that since
watching the film they have received unexpected checks in the
mail. And it happened because as they gave their focus and atten-
tion to David's story, they brought checks to them.
A game I created that helped shift my feelings about my pile of

bills was to pretend that the bills were actually checks. I would
jump for joy as I opened them and say, "More money for me!
Thank you. Thank you." I took each bill, imagined it was a check,
and then I added a zero to it in my mind to make it even more. I
got a notepad and wrote at the top of the page "I have received,"
and then I would list all the amounts of the bills with an added
zero. Next to each amount I would write "Thank you," and feel
the feelings of gratitude for receiving it—to the point where I had
tears in my eyes. Then I would take each bill, which looked very
small compared to what I had received, and I would pay it with
gratitude!
I never opened my bills until I had got myself into the feeling
that they were checks, if I opened my bills before convincing
myself they were checks, my stomach would churn when I
opened them. I knew that the emotion of the churning in my
stomach was powerfully bringing more bills. I knew I had to
erase that feeling, and replace it with joyful feelings, so I could
bring more money into my life. In the face of a pile of bills, that
game worked for me, and it changed my life. There are so many
games you can create, and you will know what works best for
you by the way you feel inside. When you make-believe, the
results come fast!
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LORAL LANGEMEIER
FINANCIAL STRATEGIST, SPEAKER, A N D
PERSONAL A N D CORPORATE COACH
I grew up on, "You have to work hard for money."
So I replaced that with, "Money comes easily and
frequently." Now in the beginning it feels like a lie, right?
There is a part of your brain that will say, "Oh you liar, it's
hard." So you have to know it's this little tennis match that
will go on for a while.
If you have had thoughts of, "I have to work really hard and
struggle to have money," let them go immediately. By thinking
those thoughts you emitted that frequency, and they became the
pictures of your life experience. Take Loral Langemeier's advice,
and replace those thoughts with, "Money comes easily and fre-
quently."
D A V I D SCHIRMER
When it comes to creating wealth, wealth is a mindset. It's all
about how you think.
LORAL LANGEMEIER
I'd say 80 percent of the coaching that I do with folks is
about their psychology and the way they think. I know
when people say, "Oh, you can do it, I can't." People
have the capability to change their inner relationship and
conversation with money.
"The good news is that the moment you

decide that what you know is more important
than what you have been taught to believe,
you will have shifted gears in your quest for
abundance. Success comes from within, not
from without."
You have got to feel good about money to attract more to you. Un-
derstandably when people do not have enough money they do not
feel good about money, because they don't have enough. But those
negative feelings about money are stopping more money coming
to you! You have got to stop the cycle, and you stop it by starting to
feel good about money, and being grateful for what you have. Start
to say and feet, "I have more than enough." "There is an abundance
of money and it's on its way to me." "I am a money magnet." "I
love money and money loves me." "I am receiving money every
day." "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you/'
Giving is a powerful action to bring more money into your life,

because when you are giving you are saying, "I have plenty." It
will not be surprising to you to learn that the wealthiest people on
the planet are the greatest philanthropists. They give away vast
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amounts of money, and as they give, by the law of attraction, the

Universe opens up and floods vast amounts of money back to them
—multiplied!
If you are thinking, "I don't have enough money to give," bingo!
Now you know why you don't have enough money! When you
think you don't have enough to give, start giving. As you demon-
strate faith in giving, the law of attraction must give you more to
give.
There is a big difference between giving and sacrificing. Giving

from a heart that is overflowing feels so good. Sacrificing does not
feel good. Don't confuse the two—they are diametrically opposed.
One emits a signal of lack and the other emits a signal of more-
than-enough. One feels good and one does not feel good. Sacrifice
will eventually lead to resentment. Giving from a full heart is one
of the most joyous things you can do, and the law of attraction will
grab hold of that signal and flood even more into your life. You can
feet the difference.
I find so many people who make a tremendous amount of

money, but their relationships stink. And that's not wealth.
You can go after the money and you might get rich, but it
doesn't guarantee you'll be wealthy. I'm not suggesting that
money isn't a part of wealth, it absolutely is. But it's only a
part.
And then I meet a lot of people who are "spiritual" but

they're sick and broke all the time. That's not wealth either.
Life is meant to be abundant—in all areas.
If you have been brought up to believe that being wealthy is not

spiritual, then I highly recommend you read The Millionaires of
the Bible Series by Catherine Ponder. In these glorious books you
will discover that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus
were not only prosperity teachers, but also millionaires them-
selves, with more affluent lifestyles than many present-day mil-
lionaires could conceive of.
You are the heir to the kingdom. Prosperity is your birthright, and
you hold the key to more abundance—in every area of your life—
than you can possibly imagine. You deserve every good thing you
want, and the Universe will give you every good thing you want,
but you have to summon it into your life. Now you know The
Secret. You have the key. The key is your thoughts and feelings,
and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.
MARCI SHIMOFF
Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They
want the great home, they want their businesses to work,
they want all these outer things. But what we found in our
research is that having these outer things does not necessarily
guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we
go for these outer things thinking they're going to bring us
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happiness, but it's backward. You need to go for the inner joy,
the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer
things appear.
Everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the

world of effects; if s just the result of thoughts. Set your thoughts
and frequency on happiness. Radiate the feelings of happiness and
joy within you, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your
might, and you will experience true heaven on earth.
• To attract money, focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more
money into your life when you focus on the lack of it.
• It is helpful to use your imagination and make-believe you already

have the money you want. Play games of having wealth and you
will feel better about money; as you feel better about it, more will
flow into your life.
• Feeling happy now is the fastest way to bring money into your life.
• Make it your intention to look at everything you like and say to

yourself, "I can afford that. I can buy that." You will shift your
thinking and begin to feel better about money.
• Give money in order to bring more of it into your life. When you are
generous with money and feel good about sharing it, you are saying,
"I have plenty."
• Visualize checks in the mail.
• Tip the balance of your thoughts to wealth. Think wealth.

MARIE D I A M O N D
FENG SHUI CONSULTANT, TEACHER,
AND SPEAKER
The Secret means that we are creators of our
Universe, and that every wish that we want to create
will manifest in our lives. Therefore, our wishes, thoughts,
and feelings are very important because they will manifest.
One day I went into the home of an art director, a very famous
film producer. In every corner he had this beautiful image of a
naked woman draped with a fabric, kind of turning away as if
she were saying, "I don't see you." I said to him, "I think you
might have trouble in your romance." And he said, "Are you
clairvoyant?" "No, but look. In seven places, you have exactly
that same woman." He said, "But I love that kind of painting.
I painted it myself." I said, "That's even worse because you
put all your creation and creativity in it."
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He's a gorgeous-looking man with all these actresses around

him because that's the work he does, and he doesn't have any
romance. I asked him, "What do you want?" "I want to date
three women a week." I said, "OK, paint it. Paint yourself with
three women, and hang it in every corner of your living space."
Six months later I saw him and asked, "How is your love
life?" "Great! Women call me, they want to date me."
"Because that's your wish," I said. He said, "I feel great. I
mean, for years I did not have a date and now I have three
dates a week. They're fighting over me." "Good for you,"
I said. Then he told me, "I really want to stabilize. I want
marriage now, I want romance." I said, "Well, then paint it."
He painted a beautiful romantic relationship, and a year later
he got married, and he's very happy.
This is because he put another wish out. He wished it in

himself for years without it happening because his wish could
not manifest. The outer level of himself—his house—was
contradicting his wish all the time. So if you understand this
knowledge, you just start playing with it.
Marie Diamond's story of her client is a perfect demonstration of

how Feng Shui reflects the teachings of The Secret. It illustrates how
our thoughts create powerfully when we put them into action. Any
action we take must be preceded by a thought. Thoughts create the
words we speak, the feelings we feel, and our actions. Actions are
particularly powerful because they are thoughts that have caused
us to act.
We may not even realize what our innermost thoughts are, but we
can see what we have been thinking by looking at the actions we
have taken. In the story of the film producer, his innermost thoughts
were reflected in his actions and surroundings. He had painted
many women, all turning away from him. Can you see what his
innermost thoughts were? Even though his words were saying he
wanted to date more women, his innermost thoughts did not reflect
that in his paintings. By deliberately choosing to change his actions,
it caused him to focus his entire thought on what he wanted. With
such a simple shift, he was able to paint his life and call it into exist-
ence through the law of attraction.
When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your
actions don't contradict your desires. One of the most wonderful
examples of this is given by Mike Dooley, one of the teachers fea-
tured in The Secret, in his audio course, Leveraging the Universe and
Engaging the Magic. It is a story of a woman who wanted to attract
her perfect partner into her life. She had done all the right things:
She got clear about what she wanted him to be like, made a detailed
list of all of his qualities, and visualized him in her life. Despite
doing all these things, there was no sign of him.
Then one day as she arrived home and was parking her car in the
middle of her garage, she gasped as she realized that her actions
were contradicting what she wanted. If her car was in the middle
of the garage, there was no room for her perfect partner's car! Her
actions were powerfully saying to the Universe that she did not
believe she was going to receive what she had asked for. So she
immediately cleaned up her garage and parked her car to one side,
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leaving space for her perfect partner's car on the other side. She
then went into her bedroom and opened her wardrobe, which was
jammed full of clothes. There was no room for her perfect partner's
clothes. So she moved some of her clothes to make space. She had
also been sleeping in the middle of her bed, and so she began sleep-
ing on "her" side, leaving space for her partner.
This woman related her story to Mike Dooley over a dinner, and sit-
ting next to her at the table was her perfect partner. After taking all
of these powerful actions and acting as if she had already received
her perfect partner, he arrived in her life and they are now happily
married.
Another simple example of "acting as if" is a story of my sister

Glenda, who is the production manager of the film The Secret. She
was living and working in Australia, and she wanted to move to
the United States and work with me in our U.S. office. Glenda knew
The Secret very well, and so she was doing all the right things to
bring forth what she wanted, but months were passing by and she
was still in Australia.
Glenda looked at her actions and realized she was not "acting as
if" she was receiving what she had asked for. So she began to take
powerful actions. She organized everything in her life for her de-
parture. She canceled memberships, gave away things she would
not need, and she got her suitcases out and packed them. Within
four weeks, Glenda was in the United States working out of our
U.S. office.
Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your
actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they're
not contradicting what you've asked for. Act as if you are receiv-
ing it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it
today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expec-
tation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are
sending out that powerful signal of expectation.
LISA NICHOLS
Inside relationships it's important to first understand who's
coming into the relationship, and not just your partner. You
need to understand yourself first.
JAMES RAY
How can you ever expect anyone else to enjoy your company
if you don't enjoy your own company? And so again, the law
of attraction or The Secret is about bringing that into your
life. You 've got to get really, really clear. Here's the question I
would ask you to consider: Do you treat yourself the way you
want other people to treat you ?
When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat
you, you can never change the way things are. Your actions are
your powerful thoughts, so if you do not treat yourself with
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love and respect, you are emitting a signal that is saying you are
not important enough, worthy enough, or deserving. That sig-
nal will continue to be broadcast, and you will experience more
situations of people not treating you well. The people are just
the effect. Your thoughts are the cause. You must begin to treat
yourself with love and respect, and emit that signal and get on
that frequency. Then the law of attraction will move the entire
Universe, and your life will be full of people who love and re-
spect you.
Many people have sacrificed themselves for others, thinking when

they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To
sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of absolute lack,
because it is saying, "There is not enough for everyone, so I will go
without" Those feelings do not feel good and will eventually lead
to resentment. There is abundance for everybody and it is each
person's responsibility to summon their own desires. You cannot
summon for another person because you cannot think and feel for
another. Your job is You, When you make feeling good a priority,
that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close
to you.
DR. JOHN GRAY

You become the solution for you. Don't point to another
person and say, "Now you owe me and you need to give me
more." Instead, give more to yourself. Take time off to give to
yourself, and in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where
now you can overflow in giving.
"To acquire l o v e . . . fill yourself up with it until

you become a magnet."
Many of us were taught to put ourselves last, and as a consequence

we attracted feelings of being unworthy and undeserving. As those
feelings lodged within us, we continued to attract more life situa-
tions that had us feel more unworthy and not enough. You must
change that thinking.
"Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so

much love to self will seem very cold, hard and
unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a
different light, when we find that 'looking out for
Number One,' as directed by the Infinite, is really
looking out for Number Two and is indeed the
only way to permanently benefit Number Two."
Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.
Therefore it is imperative that you tend to You first. Attend to your
joy first. People are responsible for their own joy. When you tend
to your joy and do what makes you feel good, you are a joy to be
around and you are a shining example to every child and every
person in your life. When you are feeling joy you don't even have
to think about giving. It is a natural overflow.
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LISA NICHOLS
I got into many relationships expecting my partner to show
me my beauty, because I didn't see my own beauty. When I
was growing up, my heroes or my "she-roes" were the Bionic
Woman, Wonder Woman, and Charlie's Angels. And while
they're wonderful, they didn't look like me. It wasn't until I
fell in love with Lisa—I fell in love with my mocha skin, my
full lips, my round hips, my curly black hair—it wasn't until
that happened that the rest of the world was able to fall in love
with me as well.
The reason you have to love You is because it is impossible to feel

good if you don't love You. When you feel bad about yourself, you
are blocking all the love and all the good that the Universe has for
you.
When you feel bad about yourself it feels as though you are suck-
ing the life out of you, because all of your good, on every single
subject—including health, wealth, and love—is on the frequency of
joy and feeling good. The feeling of having unlimited energy, and
that amazing feeling of health and wellness, are all on the frequency
of feeling good. When you don't feel good about You, you are on
a frequency that is attracting more people, situations, and circum-
stances that will continue to make you feel bad about You.
You must change your focus and begin to think about all the things
that are wonderful about You. Look for the positives in You. As you
focus on those things, the law of attraction will show you more
great things about You. You attract what you think about. All you
have to do is begin with one prolonged thought of something good

about You, and the law of attraction will respond by giving You
more like thoughts. Look for the good things about You. Seek and
ye shall find!
BOB PROCTOR
There's something so magnificent about you. I have been
studying me for forty-four years. I wanna kiss myself
sometimes! Because you're going to get to love yourself. I'm
not talking about conceit I'm talking about a healthy respect
for yourself And as you love yourself, you'll automatically
love others.
MARCI SHIMOFF
In relationships we're so used to complaining about other
people. For instance, "My coworkers are so lazy, my husband
makes me so mad, my children are so difficult." It's always
focusing on the other person. But for relationships to really
work, we need to focus on what we appreciate about the other
person, not what we're complaining about. When we're
complaining about those things we're only getting more of
those things.
Even if you're having a really hard time in a relationship-

things aren't working, you're not getting along, someone's in
your face—you still can turn that relationship around. Take a
piece of paper, and for the next thirty days sit down and write
all the things that you appreciate about that person. Think
about all the reasons that you love them. You appreciate their
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sense of humor, you appreciate how supportive they are. And

what you'll find is that when you focus on appreciating and
acknowledging their strengths, that's what you'll get more of,
and the problems will fade away.
LISA NICHOLS
Oftentimes you give others the opportunity to create your
happiness, and many times they fail to create it the way you
want it. Why? Because only one person can be in charge of
your joy, of your bliss, and that's you. So even your parent,
your child, your spouse—they do not have the control to
create your happiness. They simply have the opportunity to
share in your happiness. Your joy lies within you.
All your joy is on the frequency of love—the highest and the most
powerful frequency of all. You can't hold love in your hand. You
can only feel it in your heart. It is a state of being. You can see evi-
dence of love being expressed through people, but love is a feeling,
and you are the only one that can radiate and emit that feeling of
love. Your ability to generate feelings of love is unlimited, and when
you love you are in complete and utter harmony with the Universe.
Love everything you can. Love everyone you can. Focus only on
things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy
coming back to you—multiplied! The law of attraction must send
you back more things to love. As you radiate love, it will appear
as though the entire Universe is doing everything for you, moving
every joyful thing to you, and moving every good person to you.
In truth, it is.
• When you want to attract a relationship, make sure your thoughts,
words, actions, and surroundings don't contradict your desires.
• Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to
give anybody.
• Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who
show you love and respect.
• When you feel bad about yourself, you block the love and instead you
attract more people and situations that will continue to make you
feel bad about you.
• Focus on the qualities you love about yourself and the law of attra-
tion will show you more great things about you.
• To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about

the other person, and not your complaints. When you focus on the
strengths, you will get more of them.
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DR, JOHN HAGELIN
QUANTUM PHYSICISTAND
PUBLIC POLICY EXPERT
Our body is really the product of our thoughts. We're
beginning to understand in medical science the degree
to which the nature of thoughts and emotions actually
determines the physical substance and structure and function
of our bodies.
DR JOHN DEMARTINI
We've known in the healing arts of a placebo effect. A placebo
is something that supposedly has no impact and no effect on
the body, like a sugar pill.
You tell the patient that this is just as effective, and what
happens is the placebo sometimes has the same effect, if not
greater effect, than the medication that is supposed to be
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designed for that effect. They have found out that the human
mind is the biggest factor in the healing arts, sometimes more
so than the medication.
As you are becoming aware of the magnitude of The Secret, you

will begin to see more clearly the underlying truth of certain occur-
rences in humankind, including in the area of health. The placebo
effect is a powerful phenomenon. When patients think and truly
believe the tablet is a cure, they will receive what they believe, and
they will be cured.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

If somebody is in a situation where they're sick and they have
an alternative to try to explore what is in their mind creating
it, versus using medicine, if it's an acute situation that could
really bring death to them, then obviously the medicine is a
wise thing to do, while they explore what the mind is about.
So you don't want to negate medicine. Every form of healing
has a place.
Healing through the mind can work harmoniously with medicine. If

pain is involved, then medicine can help to eliminate that pain, which
then allows the person to be able to focus with great force on health.
"Thinking perfect health" is something anybody can do privately
within themselves, no matter what is happening around them.
LISA NICHOLS
The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance. When you
open yourself to feel the abundance of the Universe, you'll
experience the wonder, joy, bliss, and all the great things that
the Universe has for you —good health, good wealth, good
nature. But when you shut yourself off with negative thoughts,
you'll feel the discomfort, you'll feel the aches, you'll feel the
pain, and you'll feel as if every day is painful to get through.
DR. BEN JOHNSON

PHYSICIAN, AUTHOR, AND
LEADER IN ENERGY HEALING
We've got a thousand different diagnoses and diseases
out there. They're just the weak link. They're all the result of
one thing: stress. If you put enough stress on the chain and
you put enough stress on the system, then one of the links
breaks.
All stress begins with one negative thought. One thought that went
unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress
manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative think-
ing, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter
what you might have manifested, you can change i t . . . with one
small positive thought and then another.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

Our physiology creates disease to give us feedback, to let us
know we have an imbalanced perspective, or we're not being
loving and grateful. So the body's signs and symptoms are not
something terrible.
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Dr. Demartini is telling us that love and gratitude will dissolve all
negativity in our lives, no matter what form it has taken. Love and
gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles. And
love and gratitude can dissolve any disease.

The question frequently asked is, "When a person has
manifested a disease in the body temple or some kind of
discomfort in their life, can it be turned around through the
power of 'right' thinking?" And the answer is absolutely,
yes.
CATHY GOODMAN, A PERSONAL STORY

I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I truly believed
in my heart, with my strong faith, that I was already
healed. Each day I would say, "Thank you for my
healing." On and on and on I went, "Thank you for
my healing." I believed in my heart I was healed. I saw
myself as if cancer was never in my body.
One of the things I did to heal myself was to watch very funny
movies. That's all we would do was just laugh, laugh, and
laugh. We couldn't afford to put any stress in my life, because
we knew stress was one of the worst things you can do while
you're trying to heal yourself.
From the time I was diagnosed to the time I was healed

was approximately three months. And that's without any
radiation or chemotherapy.
This beautiful and inspiring story from Cathy Goodman dem-

onstrates three magnificent powers in operation: The power of
gratitude to heal, the power of faith to receive, and the power of
laughter and joy to dissolve disease in our bodies.
Cathy was inspired to include laughter as part of her healing, after

hearing about the story of Norman Cousins.
Norman had been diagnosed with an "incurable" disease. The

doctors told him he had just a few months to live. Norman decided
to heal himself. For three months all he did was watch funny
movies and laugh, laugh, laugh. The disease left his body in those
three months, and the doctors proclaimed his recovery a miracle.
As he laughed, Norman released all negativity, and he released the

disease. Laughter really is the best medicine.
DR. BEN JOHNSON

We all come with a built-in basic program. It's called "self-
healing. " You get a wound, it grows back together. You get a
bacterial infection, the immune system comes and takes care of
those bacteria, and heals it up. The immune system is made to
heal itself
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BOB P R O C T O R
Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional
state. Your body is casting off millions of cells every second,
and it's also creating millions of new cells at the same time.
DR. JOHN HAGELIN

In fact, parts of our body are literally replaced every day.
Other parts take a few months, other parts a couple of years.
But within a few years we each have a brand new physical
body.
If our entire bodies are replaced within a few years, as science has
proven, then how can it be that degeneration or illness remains in
our bodies for years? It can only be held there by thought, by ob-
servation of the illness, and by the attention given to the illness.
Think thoughts of perfection. Illness cannot exist in a body that

has harmonious thoughts. Know there is only perfection, and as
you observe perfection you must summon that to you. Imperfect
thoughts are the cause of all humanity's ills, including disease,
poverty, and unhappiness. When we think negative thoughts we
are cutting ourselves off from our rightful heritage. Declare and
intend, "I think perfect thoughts. I see only perfection. I am perfec-
tion."
I banished every bit of stiffness and lack of agility right out of my

body. I focused on seeing my body as flexible and as perfect as a
child's, and every stiff and aching joint vanished. I literally did this
overnight.
You can see that beliefs about aging are all in our minds. Science
explains that we have a brand new body in a very short time.
Aging is limited thinking, so release those thoughts from your
consciousness and know that your body is only months old, no
matter how many birthdays you have chalked up in your mind.
For your next birthday, do yourself a favor and celebrate it as your
first birthday! Don't cover your cake with sixty candles, unless you
want to summon aging to you. Unfortunately, Western society has
become fixated on age, and in reality there is no such thing.
You can think your way to the perfect state of health, the perfect
body, the perfect weight, and eternal youth. You can bring it into
being, through your consistent thinking of perfection.
BOB PROCTOR
If you have a disease, and you're focusing on it, and you're
talking to people about it, you're going to create more diseased
cells. See yourself living in a perfectly healthy body. Let the
doctor look after the disease.
One of the things that people often do when they have an illness is
talk about it all the time. That's because they're thinking about it all
the time, so they're just verbalizing their thoughts. If you are feel-
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ing a little unwell, don't talk about it—unless you want more of it.
Know that your thought was responsible and repeat as often as you
can, "I feel wonderful. I feel so good," and really feel it. If you are
not feeling great and somebody asks you how you are feeling, just
be grateful that that person has reminded you to think thoughts of
feeling well. Speak only the words of what you want.
You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and think-
ing you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also
inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their
illness. As you listen you are giving all of your thought and focus
to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something,
you are asking for it. And you are certainly not helping them. You
are adding energy to their illness. If you really want to help that
person, change the conversation to good things, if you can, or be
on your way. As you walk away, give your powerful thoughts and
feelings to seeing that person well, and then let it go.
LISA NICHOLS
Let's say you have two -people, both stricken with something,
but one chooses to focus on joy. One chooses to live in
possibility and hopefulness, focusing on all the reasons why
she should be joyful and grateful Then you have the second
person. Same diagnosis, but the second chooses to focus on the
disease, the pain, and the "woe is me."
BOB DOYLE
When people are completely focused on what's wrong and
their symptoms, they will perpetuate it. The healing will not
occur until they shift their attention from being sick to being
well. Because that's the law of attraction.
"Let us remember, so far as we can, that every

unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put
in the body."
DR, JOHN HAGELIN

Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry.
A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have
been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning
of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are
continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our
body.
No matter what you have manifested in regards to your body, you

can change it—inside and out. Start thinking happy thoughts and
start being happy. Happiness is a feeling state of being. You have
your finger on the "feeling happy" button. Press it now and keep
your finger pressed down on it firmly, no matter what is happening
around you.
DR. BEN JOHNSON

Remove physiological stress from the body, and the body docs
what it was designed to do. It heals itself.
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You don't have to fight to get rid of a disease. Just the simple proc-
ess of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state
of health to emerge within you. And your body will heal itself.

I've seen kidneys regenerated. I've seen cancer dissolved. I've
seen eyesight improve and come back.
I had been wearing reading glasses for about three years before I
discovered The Secret. One night as I was tracing the knowledge of
The Secret back through the centuries, I found myself reaching for
my glasses to see what I was reading. And I stopped in my tracks.
The realization of what I had done struck me like a lightning bolt.
I had listened to society's message that eyesight diminishes with

age. I had watched people stretch their arms out so that they could
read something. I had given my thought to eyesight diminishing
with age, and I had brought it to me. I hadn't done it deliberately
but I had done it. I knew that what I had brought into being with
thoughts I could change, so I immediately imagined myself seeing
as clearly as when I was twenty-one years old. I saw myself in dark
restaurants, on planes, and at my computer, reading clearly and
effortlessly And I said over and over, "I can see clearly, I can see
clearly." I felt the feelings of gratitude and excitement for having
clear vision. In three days my eyesight had been restored, and I
now do not own reading glasses. I can see clearly.
When I told Dr. Ben Johnson, one of the teachers from The Secret,
about what I had done, he said to me, "Do you realize what had
to happen to your eyes for you to do that in three days?" I replied,

"No, and thank goodness I didn't know, so that thought was not
in my head! I just knew I could do it, and that I could do it fast."
(Sometimes less information is better!)
Dr. Johnson eliminated an "incurable" disease from his own body,

so the restoration of my eyesight seemed like nothing to me, com-
pared with his own miracle story. In fact, I expected my eyesight
to come back overnight, so three days was no miracle in my mind.
Remember, time and size do not exist in the Universe. It is as easy
to heal a pimple as a disease. The process is identical; the difference
is in our minds. So if you have attracted some affliction to you,
reduce it in your mind to the size of a pimple, let go of all negative
thoughts, and then focus on the perfection of health.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

I always say that incurable means "curable from within."
I believe and know that nothing is incurable. At some point in time,

every so-called incurable disease has been cured. In my mind, and
in the world I create, "incurable" does not exist. There is plenty of
room for you in this world, so come join me and all who are here.
It is the world where "miracles" are everyday occurrences. It is a
world overflowing with total abundance, where all good things
exist now, within you. Sounds like heaven, doesn't it? It is.
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You can change your life and you can heal yourself.
MORRIS GOODMAN
AUTHORAND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
My story begins on March 10,1981. This day
really changed my whole life. It was a day I'll
never forget. I crashed an airplane. I ended up
in the hospital completely paralyzed. My spinal cord
was crushed, I broke the first and second cervical vertebrae,
my swallowing reflex was destroyed, I couldn't eat or drink,
my diaphragm was destroyed, I couldn't breathe. All I could
do was blink my eyes. The doctors, of course, said I'd be a
vegetable the rest of my life. All I'd be able to do is blink my
eyes. That's the picture they saw of me, but it didn't matter
what they thought. The main thing was what I thought. I
pictured myself being a normal person again, walking out of
that hospital.
The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my

mind, and once you have your mind, you can put things back
together again.
I was hooked to a respirator and they said I'd never breathe

on my own again because my diaphragm was destroyed.
But a little voice kept saying to me, "Breathe deeply, breathe
deeply." And finally I was weaned from it. They were at a
loss for an explanation. I could not afford to allow anything
to come into my mind that would distract me from my goal or

from my vision.
I had set a goal to walk out of the hospital on Christmas.

And I did. I walked out of the hospital on my own twofeet.
They said it couldn't be done. That's a day I will never
forget
For people who are sitting out there right now and are hurting, if I
wanted to sum up my life and sum up for people what they can do in
life, I would sum it up in six words: "Man becomes what he thinks
about."
Morris Goodman is known as The Miracle Man. His story was

chosen for The Secret because it demonstrates the unfathomable
power and unlimited potential of the human mind. Morris knew
the power within him to bring about what he chose to think
about. Everything is possible. Morris Goodman's story has in-
spired thousands of people to think, imagine, and feel their way
back to health. He turned the greatest challenge of his life into the
greatest gift.
Since the film The Secret was released, we have been inundated
with miracle stories of all types of diseases dissolving from peo-
ple's bodies after they watched The Secret. All things are possible
when you believe.
On the subject of health I would like to leave you with these illu-
minating words from Dr. Ben Johnson: "We are now entering the
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era of energy medicine. Everything in the Universe has a frequency

and all you have to do to is change a frequency or create an op-
posite frequency. That's how easy it is to change anything in the
world, whether that's disease or emotional issues or whatever that
is. This is huge. This is the biggest thing that we have ever come
across."
The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action.
When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what
he believes and is cured.
"Focusing on perfect health " is something we can all do within our-

selves, despite what may be happening on the outside.
Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous

cures.
Disease is held in the body by thought, by observation of the illness,

and by the attention given to the illness. If you are feeling a little
unwell, don't talk about it —unless you want more of it. If you lis-
ten to people talk about their illness, you add energy to their illness.
Instead, change the conversation to good things, and give powerful
thoughts to seeing those people in health.
Beliefs about aging are all in our minds, so release those thoughts
from your consciousness. Focus on health and eternal youth.
Do not listen to society's messages about diseases and aging. Nega-

tive messages do not serve you.
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LISA NICHOLS
People have a tendency to look at the things that they want
and say, "Yes, I like that, I want that." However, they look
at the things that they don't want and they give them just as
much energy, if not more, with the idea that they can stamp it
out, they can eliminate it, obliterate it. In our society, we've
become content with fighting against things. Fighting against
cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting
against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against
violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which
actually creates more of a fight.
HALE DWOSKIN
TEACHER AND AUTHOR OF THE SEDONA METHOD
Anything we focus on we do create. So if we're really
angry, for instance, at a war that's going on, or strife,
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or suffering, we're adding our energy to it. We're pushing

ourselves, and that only creates resistance.
"What you resist persists."
BOB DOYLE
The reason that what you resist persists is because if you're
resisting something, you're saying, "No, I don't want this thing,
because it makes me feel this way—the way I am feeling right
now." So you're putting out a really strong emotion of, "I really
don't like this feeling," and then it comes racing toward you.
Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures

after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit. You have to
go within and emit a new signal with your thoughts and feelings to
create the new pictures.
As you resist what has appeared, you are adding more energy and
more power to those pictures you don't like, and you are bringing
more of them at a furious rate. The event or circumstances can only
get bigger, because that is the law of the Universe.
JACK CANFIELD
The anti-war movement creates more war. The anti-drug
movement has actually created more drugs. Because we're
focusing on what we don't want—drugs!
LISA NICHOLS
People believe that if we really want to eliminate something,
focus on that. How much sense does it make for us to give
the particular problem all of the energy, as opposed to
focusing on trust, love, living in abundance, education, or
peace?
JACK CAN FIELD

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, "I will never attend an
anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me." She knew.
She understood The Secret. Look what she manifested in the
world.
HALE DWOSKIN
So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're anti-
hunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you
are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often
elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are
really against, because he's getting all the energy and all the
focus.
Everything in this world began with one thought. The bigger things
get bigger because more people give their thoughts to it after it has
appeared. Then those thoughts and emotions keep that very event
in our existence, and make it bigger. If we took our minds off it and
focused instead on love, it could not exist. It would evaporate and
disappear.
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"Remember, and this is one of the most difficult

as well as most wonderful statements to grasp.
Remember that no matter what the difficulty is,
no matter where it is, no matter who is affected,
you have no patient but yourself; you have
nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth
which you desire to see manifested."
JACKCANFIELD
It's OK to notice what you don't want, because it gives you
contrast to say, "This is what I do want." But the fact is,
the more you talk about what you don't want, or talk about
how bad it is, read about that all the time, and then say how
terrible it is—well, you're creating more of that
You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As

you focus on the negative events of the world, you not only add to
them, but you bring more negative things into your own life at the
same time.
When the pictures have appeared of something you do not want,

it is your cue to change your thinking and emit a new signal. If it
is a world situation, you are not powerless. You have all the power.
Focus on everybody being in joy. Focus on abundance of food. Give
your powerful thoughts to what is wanted. You have the ability to
give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-
being, despite what is happening around you.
JAMES RAY
So many times people say to me, "Well, James, I have to be
informed," Maybe you have to be informed, but you don't
have to be inundated.
When I discovered The Secret I made a decision that I would not

watch the news or read newspapers anymore, because it did not
make me feel good. The news services and the newspapers are
not in any way to blame for broadcasting bad news. As a global
community, we are responsible for it. We buy more newspapers
when a huge drama is the headline. The news channels' ratings
skyrocket when there is a national or international disaster. So the
newspapers and news services give us more bad news because, as
a society, that's what we are saying we want. The media is effect,
and we are cause. It is just the law of attraction in action!
The news services and newspapers will change what they deliver
to us when we emit a new signal and focus on what we want.

Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from
what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place the attention on what you wish to experience....
Energy flows where attention goes.
"Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's

famine feed."
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Are you beginning to see the phenomenal power you have in this
world, just through your existence? As you focus on the good
things you feel good, and you are bringing more good things to the
world. At the same time, you are bringing more good things into
your own life. When you feel good you uplift your life, and you
uplift the world!
The law is perfection in operation.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

I always say, when the voice and the vision on the inside
become more profound, clear, and loud than the opinions
on the outside, you've mastered your life!
LISA NICHOLS
It's not your job to change the world, or the people around
you. It's your job to go with the flow inside of the Universe,
and to celebrate it inside the world that exists.
You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering
your every command. Don't become mesmerized by the pictures
that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take respon-
sibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go.
Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be
grateful that it is done.
DR. JOE VITALE

One of the questions I get asked all the time is if everyone uses
The Secret, and they all treat the Universe like a catalogue,
aren't we going to run out of stuff? Won't everyone just make
a run for it and bust the hank?

What's beautiful about the teaching of The Secret is that
there's more than enough to go around for everyone.
There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of

humanity. And that lie is, "There's not enough good to go
around. There's lack and there's limitation and there's just
not enough." And that lie has people living in fear, greed,
stinginess. And those thoughts of fear, greed, stinginess,
and lack become their experience. So the world has taken a
nightmare pill.
The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around.

There's more than enough creative ideas. There's more than
enough power. There's more than enough love. There's more
than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind
that is aware of its own infinite nature.
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To think there is not enough is to look at the outside pictures and

think that everything comes from the outside. When you do that,
you will most surely see lack and limitation. You now know that
nothing comes into existence from the outside, and that everything
first comes from thinking and feeling it on the inside. Your mind is
the creative power of all things. So how can there be any lack? It's
impossible. Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you
can think into existence are unlimited. And so it is with everyone.
When you truly know this, you are thinking from a mind that is
aware of its own infinite nature.
JAMES RAY
Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told
you that life was meant to be abundant.
"The essence of this law is that you must think

abundance; see abundance, feel abundance,
believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation
enter your mind."
JOHN ASSARAF
And so just when we think that resources are dwindling, we
find new resources that can achieve the same things.
The true story of a Belize oil team is an inspiring example of the

power of the human mind to bring forth resources. The directors
of Belize Natural Energy Limited were trained by the eminent

Dr. Tony Quinn, who specializes in Humanistic Physiology train-
ing. With Dr. Quinn's mind power training, the directors were
confident that their mental picture of Belize being a successful oil-
producing country would be achieved. They took a brave step
forward to drill for oil in Spanish Lookout, and in one short year
their dream and vision became a reality. Belize Natural Energy
Limited discovered oil of the highest quality, in abundant flows
where fifty other companies had failed to find any. Belize has be-
come an oil-producing country because an extraordinary team of
people believed in the unlimited power of their mind.
Nothing is limited—not resources or anything else. It is only

limited in the human mind. When we open our minds to the un-
limited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and
experience a whole new world.
DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

Even though we say we have lack, it's because we don't open
up our vision and see all of what is around us.
DR, JOE VITALE

You know when people start to live from their heart and go for
what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the
beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't oil want
the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We
don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want... (fill in
the blank).
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You are here on this glorious planet, endowed with this wonder-
ful power, to create your life! There are no limits to what you can
create for You, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you
cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for
them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will
only attract like forces to You. So let all others create the life they
want.

There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it,
if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.
"If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty

or disease, it is because you do not believe or
do not understand the power that is yours. It is
not a question of the Universal giving to you.
It offers everything to everyone—there is no
partiality."
The Universe offers all things to all people through the law of
attraction. You have the ability to choose what you want to ex-
perience. Do you want there to be enough for you and for eve-
ryone? Then choose that and know, "There is abundance of all
things." "There is an unlimited supply." "There is so much mag-
nificence." Each of us has the ability to tap into that unlimited
invisible supply through our thoughts and feelings, and bring it
into our experience. So choose for You, because you're the only
one who can.
LISA NICHOLS
Everything that you want—all the joy, love, abundance,
prosperity, bliss— it's there, ready for you to grab ahold of
it. And you've got to get hungry for it. You've got to be
intentional. And when you become intentional and on fire
for what you want, the Universe will deliver every single
thing that you 've been wanting. Recognize the beautiful and
wonderful things around you, and bless and praise them. And
on the other side, the things that aren't currently working the
way you want them to work, don't spend your energy faulting
or complaining. Embrace everything that you want so you
can get more of it.
Lisa's wise words, to "praise and bless" the things around you,
are worth their weight in gold. Praise and bless everything in your
life! When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest fre-
quency of love. In the Bible, the Hebrews used the act of blessing to
bring forth health, wealth, and happiness. They knew the power of
blessing. For many people the only time they have blessed some-
one was when they sneezed, and so they have not used one of
the greatest powers to their full advantage. The dictionary defines
blessing as "invoking divine favor and conferring well-being or
prosperity," so begin right now to invoke the power of blessing in
your life, and bless everything and everyone. Likewise with prais-
ing, for when you are praising someone or something you are giv-
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ing love, and as you emit that magnificent frequency, it will return
to you a hundred-fold.
Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so praise and bless

your enemies. If you curse your enemies, the curse will come back
to harm you. If you praise and bless them you will dissolve all neg-
ativity and discord, and the love of the praising and blessings will
return to you. As you praise and bless, you will feel yourself shift
into a new frequency with the feedback of good feelings.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY

Most of the leaders in the past missed the great part of The
Secret, which is to empower and share with others.
This is the best time to have ever been alive in history. It's the
first time we've ever had the power to gain knowledge at our
fingertips.
With this knowledge you are becoming aware—of the truth of the
world, and yourself. My greatest insights into The Secret on the
subject of the world came from the teachings of Robert Collier,
Prentice Mulford, Charles Haanel, and Michael Bernard Beckwith.
With that understanding came total freedom. I truly hope that
you can come to the place of that same freedom. If you can, then
through your existence and the power of your thoughts, you will
bring the greatest good to this world and to the future of all hu-
mankind.
• What you resist, you attract, because you are powerfully focused
on it with emotion. To change anything, go within and emit a new
signal with your thoughts and feelings.
• You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As

you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them,
but you also bring more negative things into your own life.
• Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and

energy to trust, love, abundance, education, and peace.
• We will never run out of good things because there's more than
enough to go around for everyone. Life is meant to be abundant.
• You have the ability to tap into the unlimited supply through your
thoughts and feelings and bring it into your experience.
• Praise and bless everything in the world, and you will dissolve
negativity and discord and align yourself with the highest fre-
quency—love.
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DR. JOHN HAGELIN
When we look around us, even at our own bodies, what we see
is the tip of the iceberg.
BOB P R O C T O R
Think of this for a moment. Look at your hand. It looks solid,
but it's really not. If you put it under a proper microscope,
you'd see a mass of energy vibrating.
JOHN ASSARAF
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's
your hand, the ocean, or a star.
D R . BEN J O H N S O N
Even/thing is energy, and let me help you to understand that
just a little bit. There's the Universe, our galaxy, our planet,
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and then individuals, and then inside of this body are organ
systems, then cells, then molecules, and then atoms. And then
there is energy. So there are a lot of levels to think about, but
everything in the Universe is energy.
When I discovered The Secret I wanted to know what science and

physics understood in terms of this knowledge. What I found was
absolutely amazing. One of the most exciting things about living
in this time is that the discoveries of quantum physics and new
science are in total harmony with the teachings of The Secret, and
with what all the great teachers have known throughout history.
I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read

complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly
because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum phys-
ics helped me to have a deeper understanding of The Secret, on an
energetic level. For many people, their belief is strengthened when
they see the perfect correlation between the knowledge of The Se-
cret and the theories of new science.
Let me explain how you are the most powerful transmission tower
in the Universe. In simple terms, ail energy vibrates at a frequency.
Being energy, you also vibrate at a frequency, and what determines
your frequency at any time is whatever you are thinking and feel-
ing. All the things you want are made of energy, and they are vi-
brating too. Everything is energy.
Here is the "wow" factor. When you think about what you want,
and you emit that frequency you cause the energy of what you
want to vibrate at that frequency and you bring it to You! As you

focus on what you want, you are changing the vibration of the
atoms of that thing, and you are causing it to vibrate to You. The
reason you are the most powerful transmission tower in the Uni-
verse is because you have been given the power to focus your
energy through your thoughts and alter the vibrations of what you
are focused on, which then magnetically draws it to you.
When you think about and feel those good things that you want,
you have immediately tuned yourself to that frequency, which then
causes the energy of all those things to vibrate to you, and they ap-
pear in your life. The law of attraction says that like attracts like.
You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything
to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.
Human beings manage their own magnetizing energy, because no
one outside of them can think or feel for them, and it is thoughts
and feelings that create our frequencies.
Almost one hundred years ago, without the benefit of all the sci-
entific discoveries of the last hundred years, Charles Haanel knew
how the Universe operated.
"The Universal Mind is not only intelligence,

but it is substance, and this substance is the
attractive force which brings electrons together
by the law of attraction so they form atoms;
the atoms in turn are brought together by the
same law and form molecules; molecules take
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objective forms and so we find that the law is the

creative force behind every manifestation, not
only of atoms, but of worlds, of the Universe, of
everything of which the imagination can form
any conception."
BOB PROCTOR
I don't care what city you're living in, you've got enough
power in your body, potential power, to illuminate the whole
city for nearly a week.
"To become conscious of this power is to become

a 'live wire/ The Universe is the live wire. It
carries power sufficient to meet every situation
in the life of every individual. When the
individual mind touches the Universal Mind, it
receives all its power."
JAMES RAY
Most people define themselves by this finite body, but
you're not a finite body. Even under a microscope you're an
energy field. What we know about energy is this: You go to a
quantum physicist and you say, "What creates the world?"
And he or she will say, "Energy." Well, describe energy.
"OK, it can never be created or destroyed, it always was,

always has been, everything that ever existed always exists,
it's moving into form, through form and out of form." You
go to a theologian and ask the question, "What created the
Universe?" And he or she will say, "God." OK, describe God.
"Always was and always has been, never can be created or
destroyed, all that ever was, always will be, always moving
into form, through form and out of form." You see, it's the
same description, just different terminology.
So if you think you're this "meat suit" running around,

think again. You're a spiritual being! You're an energy field,
operating in a larger energy field.
How does all of this make you a spiritual being? For me, the an-
swer to that question is one of the most magnificent parts of the
teachings of The Secret. You are energy, and energy cannot be cre-
ated or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You!
The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been
and always will be. You can never not be.
On a deep level, you know that. Can you imagine not being? De-
spite everything you have seen and experienced in your life, can
you imagine not being? You cannot imagine it, because it is impos-
sible. You are eternal energy.
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DR. JOHN HAGELIN

Quantum mechanics confirms it. Quantum cosmology
confirms it. That the Universe essentially emerges from
thought and all of this matter around us is just precipitated
thought. Ultimately toe are the source of the Universe, and
when we understand that power directly by experience, we
can start to exercise our authority and begin to achieve more
and more. Create anything. Know anything from within the
field of our own consciousness, which ultimately is Universal
consciousness that runs the Universe.
So depending upon how we use that power, positively or

negatively, that's the kind of body in terms of health, that's
the kind of environment we create. So we are the creators, not
only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators
of Universal destiny. We are the creators of the Universe. So
there's no limit, really, to human potential. It's the degree to
which we recognize those deep dynamics and exercise them,
the degree to which we harness our power. And that really
has to do again with the level at which we think.
Some of the greatest teachers and avatars described the Universe

in the same way as Dr. Hagelin, by saying that all that exists is the
One Universal Mind, and there is nowhere that the One Mind is
not. It exists in everything. The One Mind is all intelligence, all
wisdom, and all perfection, and it is everything and everywhere
at the same time. If everything is the One Universal Mind, and the
whole of it exists everywhere, then it is all in You!
Let me help you understand what that means for you. It means
that every possibility already exists. All knowledge, all discover-
ies, and all inventions of the future, are in the Universal Mind
as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth.
Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from
the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that
or not.
How do you draw from it? You do it through your awareness of

it, and by using your wonderful imagination. Look around you
for needs waiting to be filled. Imagine if we had a great invention
to do this, or imagine if we had a great invention to do that. Look
for the needs, and then imagine and think their fulfilment into
being. You don't have to work out the discovery or the invention.
The Supreme Mind holds that possibility. All you have to do is
hold your mind on the end result and imagine filling the need,
and you will call it into being. As you ask and feel and believe,
you will receive. There is an unlimited supply of ideas waiting
for you to tap into and bring forth. You hold everything in your
consciousness.
"Divine Mind is the one and only reality."

JOHN ASSARAF
We're all connected. We just don't see it. There isn't an
"out there" and an "in here." Everything in the Universe is
connected. It is just one energy field.
So whichever way you look at it, the result is still the same. We are
One. We are all connected, and we are all part of the One Energy
Field, or the One Supreme Mind, or the One Consciousness, or
the One Creative Source. Call it whatever you want, but we are all
One.
If you think about the law of attraction now, in terms of us all being
One, you will see its absolute perfection.
You will understand why your negative thoughts about some-

one else will return to harm only You. We are One! You cannot
be harmed unless you call harm into existence by emitting those
negative thoughts and feelings. You have been given free will to
choose, but when you think negative thoughts and have nega-
tive feelings, you are separating yourself from the One and All
Good. Think about every negative emotion there is and you will
discover that every one of them is based in fear. They come from
thoughts of separation and from seeing yourself as separate from
another.
Competition is an example of separation. First, when you have

thoughts of competition, it is coming from a lack mentality, as
you are saying there is a limited supply. You are saying there is
not enough for everybody, so we have to compete and fight to get

things. When you compete you can never win, even if you think
you won. By the law of attraction, as you compete you will attract
many people and circumstances to compete against You in every
single aspect of your life, and in the end you will lose. We are all
One, and so when you compete, you compete against You. You
have to get competition out of your mind, and become a creative
mind. Focus only on your dreams, your visions, and take all compe-
tition out of the equation.
The Universe is the Universal supply and supplier of everything.

Everything comes from the Universe, and is delivered to you
through people, circumstances, and events, by the law of attraction.
Think of the law of attraction as the law of supply. It is the law that
enables you to draw from the infinite supply. When you emit the
perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circum-
stances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!
It is not people who are giving you the things you desire. If you
hold that false belief, you will experience lack, because you are
looking at the outside world and people as the supply. The true
supply is the invisible field, whether you call that the Universe, the
Supreme Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence, or whatever else. When-
ever you receive anything, remember that you attracted it to you
by the law of attraction, and by being on the frequency and in har-
mony with the Universal Supply. The Universal Intelligence which
pervades everything moved people, circumstances, and events to
give that thing to you, because that is the law.
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LISA NICHOLS
We often get distracted with this thing called our body and
our physical being. That just holds your spirit. And your
spirit is so big it fills a room. You are eternal life. You are God
manifested in human form, made to perfection.

Scripturally we could say that we are the image and the likeness
of God. We could say toe are another way that the Universe
is becoming conscious of itself We could say that we are the
infinite field of unfolding possibility. All of that would be true.
"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible

and untouchable."
You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are
Eternal Life expressing itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You
are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are
perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are
creating the creation of You on this planet.
JAMES RAY
Every tradition has told you that you were created in the
image and likeness of the creative source. That means that
you have God potential and power to create your world,
and you are.
Maybe you've created things to this point that are wonderful

and worthy of you, and maybe you haven't. The question
I'd ask you to consider is, "Are the results you have in your
life what you really want? And are they worthy of you?" If
they're not worthy of you, then wouldn't now be the right
time to change those? Because you have the power to do that.
"All power is from within and therefore

under our control."
JACKCANFIELD
A lot of people feel like they're victims in life, and they'll often
point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive
parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists
believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so
all of a sudden you're not so unique.
My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My

mother divorced him when I was six.... I mean, that's
almost everybody's story in some form or not. The real
question is, what are you going to do now? What do you
choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that,
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or you can focus on what you want. And when people start
focusing on what they want, what they don't want falls
away, and what they want expands, and the other part
disappears.
"A person who sets his or her mind on the

dark side of life, who lives over and over
the misfortunes and disappointments of
the past, prays for similar misfortunes and
disappointments in the future. If you will
see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are
praying for such ill luck and will surely get it."
If you go back over your life and focus on the difficulties from the
past, you are just bringing more difficult circumstances to You now.
Let it all go, no matter what it is. Do it for you. If you hold a grudge
or blame someone for something in the past, you are only harming
You. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve. As
you deliberately focus on what you want, as you begin to radiate
good feelings, the law of attraction will respond. All you have to do
is make a start, and as you do, you will unleash the magic.
LISA NICHOLS
You are the designer of your destiny. You are the author. You
write the story. The pen is in your hand, and the outcome is
whatever you choose.

The beautiful thing about the law of attraction is that you
can begin where you are, and you can begin to think "real
thinking," and you can begin to generate within yourself a
feeling tone of harmony and happiness. The law will begin to
respond to that.
DR. JOE VITALE

So now you start to have different beliefs, like, "There
is more than enough in the Universe." Or you have the
belief that, "I'm not getting older, I'm getting younger."
We can create it the way we want it, by using the law of
attraction.

- And you can break yourself free from your hereditary
patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs, and prove once and for
all that the power within you is greater than the power within
the world.
DR FRED ALAN WOLF

You may be thinking, "Well, that's very nice, but I can't do
that." Or, "She won't let me do that!" Or, "He'll never let me
do that." Or, "I haven't got enough money to do that." Or,
"I'm not strong enough to do that." Or, "I'm not rich enough
to do that." Or, "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not."
Every single "I'm not" is a creation!

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It is a good idea to become aware when you say, "I'm not" and
to think about what you are creating as you say it. A powerful
insight shared by Dr. Wolf has been equally documented by all the
great teachers with the power of the words I am. When you say "I
am,' the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty
force, because you are declaring it to be fact. You are stating it with
certainty. And so immediately after you say, "I am tired" or "I am
broke" or "I am sick" or "I am late" or "I am overweight" or "I am
old," the Genie says, "Your wish is my command."
Knowing this, wouldn't it be a good idea to begin to use the two

most powerful words, I AM, to your advantage? How about, "I
AM receiving every good thing. I AM happy I AM abundant. I AM
healthy. I AM love. I AM always on time. I AM eternal youth. I AM
filled with energy every single day."
In his book The Master Key System, Charles Haanel claims that there
is an affirmation that incorporates every single thing any human
being can want, and that this affirmation will bring about har-
monious conditions to all things. He adds, "The reason for this is
because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the Truth, and
when Truth appears every form of error or discord must necessar-
ily disappear."
The affirmation is this: "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, lov-

ing, harmonious, and happy."
If it sounds like work to drag what you want out of the invis-
ible and into the visible, try this shortcut: see what you want as
absolute fact. This will manifest what you want with the speed of
light The second you ask, it is fact in the Universal spiritual field,
and that field is all that exists. When you conceive something in
your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question
about its manifestation.
"There is no limit to what this law can do for

you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of
the ideal as an already accomplished fact."
When Henry Ford was bringing his vision of the motor vehicle into
our world, people around him ridiculed him and thought he had
gone mad to pursue such a "wild" vision. Henry Ford knew much
more than the people who ridiculed him. He knew The Secret and
he knew the law of the Universe.
"Whether you think you can or think you can't,

either way you are right."
Do you think you can? You can achieve and do anything you want
with this knowledge. In the past you may have underestimated
how brilliant you are. Well, now you know you are the Supreme
Mind and that you can draw anything you want from that One
Supreme Mind. Any invention, any inspiration, any answer, any-
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thing. You can do anything you want. You are a genius beyond
description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who
you really are.

- Are there any limits to this? Absolutely not. We are unlimited
beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents
and the gifts and the power that is within every single
individual that is on the planet, is unlimited.
All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through

holding that power in your consciousness.
Your mind can be like a runaway steam train if you let it. It can take
you off to thoughts of the past, and then take you off to thoughts
of the future by taking past bad events and projecting those into
your future. Those out-of-control thoughts are creating too. When
you are aware, you are in the present and you know what you are
thinking. You have gained control of your thoughts, and that is
where all your power is.
So how do you become more aware? One way is to stop and ask
yourself, "What am I thinking now? What am I feeling now?" The
moment you ask you are aware, because you have brought your
mind back to the present moment.
Whenever you think of it, bring yourself back to the awareness of

now. Do it hundreds of times each day, because, remember, all of
your power is in your awareness of your power. Michael Bernard
Beckwith sums up the awareness of this power when he says, "Re-
member to remember!" Those words have become the theme song
of my life.
To help myself become more aware, so I would remember to remem-

ber, I asked the Universe to give me a gentle nudge to bring me back
to the present whenever my mind has taken over and is "having a
party" at my expense. That gentle nudge happens by me bumping
myself or dropping something, a loud noise, or a siren or an alarm
going off. All of these things are signals to me that my mind has
taken off, and to come back to the present. When I receive these
signals I stop immediately and ask myself, "What am I thinking?
What am I feeling? Am I aware?" And of course in the moment I do
that I am aware. The very moment you ask yourself if you aware,
you are there. You are aware.
"The real secret of power is consciousness of

power."
As you become aware of the power of The Secret, and begin to use
it, all of your questions will be answered. As you begin to have
a deeper understanding of the law of attraction you can start to
make asking questions a habit and as you do, you will receive the
answer to each one. You can begin by using this book for that very
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purpose. If you are seeking an answer or guidance on something

in your life, ask the question, believe you will receive, and then
open this book randomly. At the exact place where the pages fall
open will be the guidance and answer you are seeking.
The truth is that the Universe has been answering you all of your
life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are aware. Be
aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the
answers to your questions in every moment of the day. The chan-
nels those answers can come through are unlimited. They could
be delivered in the form of a newspaper headline that attracts
your attention, or overhearing someone speaking, or a song on
the radio, or signage on a truck passing by, or receiving a sudden
inspiration. Remember to remember, and become aware!
I have found in my own life and in others' lives that we do not

think well of ourselves or love ourselves completely. To not love
ourselves can keep what we want from us. When we don't love
ourselves, we are literally pushing things away from us.
Everything we want, whatever it may be, is motivated by love. It

is to experience the feelings of love in having those things—youth,
money, the perfect person, job, body, or health. To attract the things
we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear im-
mediately.
The catch is, to transmit the highest frequency of love, you must
love yourself, and that can be difficult for many. If you focus on the
outside and what you see now, you may trip yourself up, because
what you see and feel about you now is the result of what you used
to think. If you don't love you, the person you see now is likely to
be full of faults that you have found in yourself.
To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You.

You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and
sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus
on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a
feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is
the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on
that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will
love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life.
Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus
immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal
itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested
in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the
light of this presence. Whether you want to regain perfect eyesight,
dissolve disease and restore well-being, turn poverty into abun-
dance, reverse aging and degeneration, or eradicate any negativ-
ity, focus on and love the presence within you and perfection will
manifest.
"The absolute truth is that the ' I ' is perfect

and complete; the real ' I ' is spiritual and can
therefore never be less than perfect; it can never
have any lack, limitation, or disease."
• Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically
energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to eve-
rything you want.
• You are a spiritual being. You are energy, and energy cannot be cre-
ated or destroyed—it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence
of you has always been and always will be.
• The Universe emerges from thought. We are the creators not only of
our own destiny but also of the Universe.
• An unlimited supply of ideas is available to you. All knowledge,

discoveries, and inventions are in the Universal Mind as possibili-
ties, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth. You hold eve-
rything in your consciousness.
• We are all connected, and toe are all One.
• Let go of difficulties from your past, cultural codes, and social be-
liefs. You are the only one who can create the life you deserve.
• A shortcut to manifesting your desires is to see what you want as

absolute fact.
• Your power is in your thoughts, so stay aware. In other words,

"Remember to remember."
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NEALE DONALD WALSCH
AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER,
AND SPIRITUAL MESSENGER
There is no blackboard in the sky on which
God has written your purpose, your mission
in life. There's no blackboard in the sky that
says, "Neale Donald Walsch. Handsome guy who lived in
the first part of the twenty-first century, who .. ."And then
there's a blank. And all I have to do to really understand
what I'm doing here, why I'm here, is to find that blackboard
and find out what God really has in mind for me. But the
blackboard doesn't exist.
So your purpose is what you say it is. Your mission is the

mission you give yourself Your life will be what you create it
as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.
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You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.
If you have filled it in with baggage from the past, wipe it clean.
Erase everything from the past that does not serve you, and be
grateful it brought you to this place now, and to a new beginning.
You have a clean slate, and you can start over—right here/ right
now. Find your joy and live it!
JACK CAN FIELD

It took a lot of years for me to get this point, because I grew
up very much with this idea that there was something I was
supposed to do, and if I wasn't doing it, God wouldn't be
happy with me.
When I really understood that my primary aim was to feel

and experience joy, then I began to do only those things which
brought me joy. I have a saying: "If it ain't fun, don't do it!"
NEALE DONALD VVALSCH

Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That's what it is. And
if you just experience joy sitting there and meditating for an
hour, by golly, do that. If you experience joy eating a salami
sandwich, then do that!
JACKCANFIELD
When I pet my cat I'm in a state of joy. When I walk in nature
I'm in a state of joy. So I want to constantly put myself in
that state, and when I do, then all I have to do is have the
intention of what I want, and what I want manifests.
Do the things that you love and that bring you joy. If you don't
know what brings you joy, ask the question, "What is my joy?"
And as you find it and commit yourself to it, to joy, the law of
attraction will pour an avalanche of joyful things, people, circum-
stances, events and opportunities into your life, all because you are
radiating joy.
DR. JOHN HAGELIN

So inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.
Be happy now. Feel good now. That's the only thing you have to do.
If that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you
have received the greatest part of The Secret.
DR. JOHN GRAY

Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be
drawing in more.
You are reading this book right now. It's you that drew this
into your life, and it's your choice whether you want to take it
and utilize it, if it feels good. If it doesn't feel good, then let it
go. Find something that feels good, that resonates with your
heart.
The knowledge of The Secret is being given to you, and what you
do with it is entirely in your hands. Whatever you choose for You is
right. Whether you choose to use it, or whether you choose not to
use it, you get to choose. The freedom of choice is yours.
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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open

doors for you where there were only walls."
LISA NICHOLS
When you follow your bliss you live in a constant space of
joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe.
You're excited to share your life with those you love, and your
excitement, your passion, your bliss become contagious.
DR. JOE VITALE

That's what I'm doing almost all the time—following my
excitement, my passion, my enthusiasm—and I'm doing it
throughout my day,
BOB PROCTOR
Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!
MARIE DIAMOND
You will live in a different reality, a different life. And people
will look at you and say, "What do you do different from me?"
Well, the only thing that is different is that you work with
The Secret.
MORRIS GOODMAN
And then you can do and have and be things that people once
said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.
DR. FRED ALAN WOLF

We're really now moving into a new era. It's the era where the
last frontier is not space, as "Star Trek" would say, but it's
going to be Mind.
DR. JOHN HAGELIN
I see a future of unbounded potential, unbounded possibilities.
Remember we're using, at mast, 5 percent of the. potential of
the human mind. One hundred percent human potential is the
result of proper education. So imagine a world where people
are using their full mental and emotional potential. We could
go anywhere. We could do anything. Achieve anything.
This time on our glorious planet is the most exciting time in his-
tory. We are going to see and experience the impossible becoming
possible, in every field of human endeavor and on every subject.
As we let go of all thoughts of limitation, and know that we are
unlimited, we will experience the limitless magnificence of human-
kind, expressed through sport, health, art, technology, science, and
every single field of creation.
BOB PROCTOR
See yourself with the good that you desire. Every religious
book tells us that, every great book on philosophy, every great
leader, all the avatars who have ever lived. Go back and study
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the wise ones. Many of them have been presented to you in

this book. They all understood one thing. They understood
The Secret. Now you understand it. And the more you use it,
the more you'll understand it.
The Secret is within you. The more you use the power within you,
the more you will draw it to you. You will reach a point where you
won't need to practice anymore, because you will Be the power,
you will be the perfection, you will Be the wisdom, you will Be the
intelligence, you will Be the love, you will Be the joy.
LISA NICHOLS
You've come to this juncture in your life, merely because
something in you kept saying, "You deserve to be happy."
You were born to add something, to add value to this world.
To simply be something, bigger and better than you were
yesterday.
Every single thing you've been through, every single moment

that you've come through, were to all prepare you for this
moment right now. Imagine what you can do from this day
forward with what you now know. Now you get that you are
the creator of your destiny. So how much more do you get
to do? How much more do you get to be? How many more
people do you get to bless, simply by your mere existence?
What will you do with the moment? How will you seize the
moment? No one else can dance your dance, no one else can
sing your song, no one else can write your story. Who you
are, what you do, begins right now!

I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent
about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your
life. Regardless of how young or old you think you might be.
The moment you begin to "think properly," this something
that's within you, this power within you that's greater than
the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It
will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you,
direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it Now that
is what I know, for sure.
The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for
You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The
stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every won-
drous thing you experience, is all there, for You. Take a look around.
None of it can exist, without You. No matter who you thought you
were, now you know the Truth of Who You Really Are. You are the
master of the Universe. You are the heir to the kingdom. You are
the perfection of Life. And now you know The Secret.
May the joy be with you!
"The secret is the answer to all that has been, all

that is, and all that will ever be."
• You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want.
• The only thing you need to do is feel good now.
• The more you use the power within you, the more power you will
draw through you.
• The time to embrace your magnificence is now.
• We are in the midst of a glorious era. As we let go of limiting thoughts,

we will experience humanity's true magnificence, in every area of crea-
tion.
• Do what you love. If you don't know what brings you joy, ask, "What
is my joy?" As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche
of joyful things because you are radiating joy.
• Now that you have learned the knowledge of The Secret, what you
do with it is up to you. Whatever you choose is right. The power is
all yours.
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JOHN ASSARAF
A former street kid, John Assaraf is now an
international bestselling author, lecturer, and
business advisor, committed to helping entre-
preneurs create greater wealth while living an
extraordinary life. John has dedicated the last
twenty-five years to researching the human brain, quantum phys-
ics, and business strategies, as they relate to achieving success in
business and life. By applying what he learned, John has built four
multi-million-dollar companies from scratch, and he now shares
his unique business-building and moneymaking ideas with entre-
preneurs and small business owners worldwide. To learn more,
visit www.onecoach.com.

In 1986 Dr. Beckwith, a nonaligned, trans-
religious progressive, founded the Agape
International Spiritual Center, whose mem-
bership numbers 10,000 locally and hundreds
of thousands of friends and affiliates world-
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wide. He serves on international panels with spiritual luminaries

such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, founder
of Sarvodaya; and Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gan-
dhi. He is co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought,
whose annual conference brings together scientists, economists,
artists, and spiritual leaders at the cutting edge of guiding human-
ity to its highest potential.
Dr. Beckwith teaches meditation and scientific prayer, conducts

retreats, and speaks at conferences and seminars. He is the origi-
nator of the Life Visioning Process, and author of Inspirations of the
Heart, 40 Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. Please
go to www.Agapelive.com for more information.
GENEVIEVE BEHREND
(c. 1881-c. i960)
Genevieve Behrend studied with the great
Judge Thomas Troward, one of the early
teachers of spiritual metaphysics, and author
of Mental Science. Thomas Troward chose
Behrend as his only pupil, and she went on to teach, lecture, and
practice "mental science" in North America for thirty-five years, as
well as write her own popular books, Your Invisible Power and At-
taining Your Heart's Desire.
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LEE BROWER
Lee Brower is the founder and CEO of Em-
powered Wealth, an international consult-
ing firm that offers businesses, foundations,
families, and individuals systems and solu-
tions for empowering their Core, Experience,
Contribution, and Financial Assets. He is also the founder of The
Quadrant Living Experience, LLC, a boutique firm that licenses
and trains an international network of Quadrant Living Advisors.
Lee is co-author of Wealth Enhancement and Preservation and author
of The Brower Quadrant. His two websites are www-empowered
wealth.com and www.quadrantliving.com.
JACKCANFIELD
Jack Canfield, author of The Success Princi-
ples™, is the co-creator of the phenomenal
number one New York Times bestselling Chicken
Soup for the Soul® series, which currently has
more than 100 million copies in print. He is
America's leading expert in creating success breakthroughs for
entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals,
employees, and educators, and has helped hundreds of thousands
of individuals achieve their dreams. For more information on Jack
Canfield, visit www.jackcanfield.com.
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ROBERT COLLIER (1885-1950)

Robert Collier was a prolific and hugely suc-
cessful American writer. All of his books,
which include The Secret of the Ages and Riches
within Your Reach, were founded on Collier's
own extensive research into metaphysics and
on his personal belief that success, happiness, and abundance are
easily and rightfully attainable by everyone. The excerpts contained
in this book were taken from the seven-volume set The Secret of the
Ages, with the generous consent of Robert Collier Publications.
DR. JOHN F. DEMARTINI

D.C, B.SC
Once told he was learning disabled, John De-
martini is now a doctor, philosopher, author,
and international speaker. For many years
he had a successful chiropractic clinic, and
was once named Chiropractor of the Year. Dr. Demartini is now a
consultant to health professionals, and speaks and writes on the
subjects of healing and philosophy. His personal transformation
methodologies have helped thousands of people find a greater
order and happiness in their lives. His website is www.drde
martini.com.
MARIE DIAMOND
Marie is an internationally known Feng Shui
master who has been practicing for more
than twenty years,, refining the knowledge
given to her at an early age. She has advised
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numerous Hollywood celebrities, major film directors and pro-

ducers, music giants, and famous authors. She has helped many
well-known public figures create more success in all areas of their
lives. Marie created Diamond Feng Shui, Diamond Dowsing, and
Inner Diamond Feng Shui to bridge the law of attraction in an
individual's environment. Her website is www.mariediamond
.com.
MIKE DOOLEY
Mike is not a "career" teacher or speaker; in-
stead, as a "life adventurer" he has success-
fully navigated both the corporate and entre-
preneurial arenas. After living and working
around the world for Price Waterhouse, in
1989 he co-founded Totally Unique Thoughts (TUT) to retail and
wholesale its own line of inspirational gifts. From the ground up,
TUT grew into a regional chain of stores, was carried by every
major U.S. department store, and reached consumers around the
globe through distribution centers in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and
Switzerland, selling over one million Totally Unique T-shirts®.
In 2000 he transformed TUT into a web-based inspirational and
philosophical Adventurers Club, which now has over 60,000 mem-
bers from more than 169 countries. He is the author of a number of
books, including three volumes of Notes from the Universe and the
internationally acclaimed audio program, Infinite Possibilities: The
Art of Living Your Dreams. You can learn more about Mike and TUT
at www.tut.com.
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BOB DOYLE
Bob Doyle is the creator and facilitator of the
Wealth Beyond Reason program, a power-
ful multi-media curriculum on the law of
attraction and its practical application. Bob
focuses on the science of the law of attraction
to help you more purposefully activate the law in your life, and
to attract wealth, success, awesome relationships, and anything
else you desire. For more information, visit www.wealthbeyon-
dreason.com.
HALE DWOSKIN
Author of the New York Times bestseller The
Sedona Method, Hale Dwoskin dedicates him-
self to freeing people of limiting beliefs in
order to help them achieve whatever their
hearts desire. The Sedona Method is a unique
and powerful technique that shows you how to release limiting
and painful feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. Hale has taught these
principles to corporations and individuals worldwide for the past
thirty years. His website is www.sedona.com.
MORRIS G O O D M A N
Dubbed "The Miracle Man," Morris Good-
man made headlines in 1981 when he recov-
ered from horrific injuries after crashing his
airplane. He was told he would never walk,
speak, or function normally again, but today
Morris travels the world inspiring and uplifting thousands of peo-
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ple with his astounding story. Morris's wife, Cathy Goodman, is

also featured in The Secret, telling her own inspiring account of self-
healing. To learn more, visit www.themiracleman.org.
JOHN GRAY, PH.D.

John Gray is the author of Men Are from Mars,
Women Are from Venus, the number one best-
selling relationship book of the last decade,
selling over thirty million copies. He has au-
thored fourteen other bestsellers, and conducts
seminars for thousands of participants. His focus is to help men and
women understand, respect, and appreciate their differences, in
both personal and professional relationships. His new book is The
Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution. To learn more, visit www
.marsvenus.com.
CHARLES HAANEL (1866-1949)

Charles Haanel was a successful American
businessman and the author of several books,
all of which contained Haanel's own ideas
and methods that he used to achieve great-
ness in his own life. His most famous work is
The Master Key System, which gives twenty-four weekly lessons to
greatness, and is as popular today as it was when it was first pub-
lished in 1912.
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JOHN HAGELIN, PH.D.

Dr. John Hagelin is a world-renowned quan-
tum physicist, educator, and public policy
expert His book, Manual for a Perfect Govern-
ment, explains how to solve major societal and
environmental problems and create world
peace through policies in harmony with the laws of nature. John
Hagelin was awarded the prestigious Kilby Award, which recog-
nizes scientists who have made major contributions to society. He
was also the Natural Law Party presidential candidate in 2000.
John is regarded by many as one of the greatest scientists on the
planet today. His website is www.hagelin.org.
BILL HARRIS
Bill Harris is a professional speaker, teacher,
and business owner. After studying ancient
and modern research about the nature of
the mind and transformational techniques,
Bill created Holosync, an audio technol-
ogy that results in the benefits of deep meditation. His company,
Centerpointe Research Institute, has enabled thousands of people
worldwide to lead happier, stress-free lives. To find out more, visit
www.centerpointe.com.
DR. BEN JOHNSON

M.D., N.M.D., D.O.
Originally trained in Western medicine, Dr.
Johnson became interested in energy healing
after overcoming a life-threatening illness
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using unconventional methods. He is chiefly interested in The

Healing Codes, a form of healing discovered by Dr. Alex Lloyd.
Today Dr. Johnson and Alex Lloyd rim The Healing Codes Com-
pany, which distributes the teachings. Visit www.healingcodes.com
to learn more.
LORAL LANGEMELER
Loral Langemeier is the founder of Live
Out Loud, which provides financial educa-
tion and support to help people reach their
monetary goals. She believes that mindset is
the key to building wealth, and has assisted
many people in becoming millionaires. Loral speaks to individu-
als and corporations, passing on her knowledge and expertise.
Her website is www.liveoutloud.com.
PRENTICE MULFORD (1834-1891)

Prentice Muiford was one of the earliest
writers and founders of the New Thought
movement, and was a recluse for much of
his life. He has influenced countless writers
and teachers with his work, which deals with
mental and spiritual laws. Titles include Thoughts Arc Things and
The White Cross Library, a collection of his many essays.
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LISA NlCHOLS
Lisa Nichols is a powerful advocate of per-
sonal empowerment. She is the founder and
CEO of Motivating the Masses and Motivat-
ing the Teen Spirit, two comprehensive skills
programs that work to bring about profound
change in the lives of teenagers, women, and entrepreneurs, as well
as provide services to the educational system, corporate clients,
empowerment organizations, and faith-based programs. Lisa is the
co-author of Chicken Soup for the African American Sow/, from the best-
selling worldwide series. Her website is www.Iisa-nichols.com.
BOB PROCTOR
Bob Proctor's wisdom came to him through
a lineage of great teachers. It began with An-
drew Carnegie who passed it to Napoleon
Hill, and then Hill passed it to Earl Nightin-
gale. Earl Nightingale then passed the torch of
wisdom to Bob Proctor. Bob has worked in the area of mind poten-
tial for over forty years. He travels the globe teaching The Secret,
helping companies and individuals to create lives of prosperity
and abundance through the law of attraction. He is the author of
the international bestseller, You Were Born Rich. To learn more about
Bob, visit www.bobproctor.com.
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JAMES ARTHUR RAY

A student of the principles of true wealth and
prosperity his entire life, James developed The
Science of Success and Harmonic Wealth®,
which teaches people how to receive unlim-
ited results in all areas: financially, relationally,
intellectually, physically, and spiritually. His personal performance
systems, corporate training programs, and coaching aids are uti-
lized worldwide, and he speaks regularly on the subjects of true
wealth, success, and human potential. James is also an expert on
many Eastern, indigenous, and mystical traditions. Visit his website
at www.jamesray.com.
DAVID SCHIRMER
David Schirmer is a highly successful share
trader, investor, and investment trainer who
conducts workshops, seminars, and courses.
His company, Trading Edge, teaches people
how to create unlimited income by develop-
ing a mindset that is conducive to wealth. Schirmer's analysis of
the Australian and overseas share and commodity markets is held
in high regard due to his regular accuracy. To learn more, visit
www.tradingedge.com.au.
MARCI SHIMOFF, MBA

Marci Shimoff is co-author of the enormously
successful Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul
and Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul. She is
a transformational leader who speaks pas-
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sionately about personal development and happiness. Her work

is specially geared toward enhancing women's lives. She is also
co-founder and president of The Esteem Group, a company that
offers self-esteem and inspirational programs for women. Her
website is www.marcishimoff.com.
DR. JOE VlTALE, MSC.D.

Joe Vitale, homeless twenty years ago, is
now considered to be one of the top market-
ing specialists in the world. He has written
numerous books concerning principles of
success and abundance, including Life's Miss-
ing Instruction Manual, Hypnotic Writing, and The Attractor Factor,
all number one bestsellers. Joe holds a doctorate degree in Meta-
physical Science and is a certified hypnotherapist, metaphysical
practitioner, ordained minister, and Chi Kung healer. Visit www
.mrfire.com to learn more.
DR. DENIS WAITLEY, P H . D .

Dr. Waitley is one of America's most re-
spected authors, lecturers, and consultants on
high-performance human achievement. He
was employed to train NASA astronauts, and
later implemented the same program with
Olympic athletes. His audio album, The Psychology of Winning, is
the all-time bestselling program on self-mastery, and he is also the
author of fifteen non-fiction books, including several international
bestsellers. His website is www.waitley.com.
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NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Neale Donald Walsch is a modern-day spir-
itual messenger and the bestselling author
of the groundbreaking three-book Conversa-
tions with God series, which broke all records
on the New York Times bestsellers list. Neale
has published twenty-two books, as well as video and audio
programs, and travels the world carrying the message of a
New Spirituality. He may be contacted at www.nealedonald
walsch.com.
WALLACE WATTLES (1860-1911)

American-born Wallace Wattles spent many
years studying various religions and phi-
losophies before he began to write about the
practice of "New Thought" principles. Wat-
tles's many books have had a significant im-
pact on today's prosperity and success teachers. His most famous
work is the prosperity classic The Science of Getting Rich, published
in 1910.
S
FRED ALAN WOLF, PH.D
Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lec-
turer, with a doctorate in theoretical physics.
Dr. Wolf has taught at universities through-
out the world, and his work in quantum
physics and consciousness is well known
through his writing. He is the author of twelve books, including
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Taking the Quantum Leap, which won the National Book Award.
Today Dr. Wolf continues to write and lecture throughout the
world and carry out his fascinating research into the relationship
of quantum physics and consciousness. Visit his website, www
.fredaIanwoIf.com.
May The Secret bring you love and
joy for your entire existence.
That is my intention for you,

and for the world.
To experience more, visit www.thesecret.tv.

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I'd been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The

Incredulous, I asked, "Why doesn't everyone know this?" A burn-

One by one they began to emerge. I became a magnet: as I began

Some of the most magnificent stories we have received have come

My intention in creating The Secret was—and still is—that it will

Twenty-four amazing teachers are featured in this book. Their

I would also like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to the

For generously sharing their wisdom, love, and divinity, I pay

The magnificent human beings that make up The Secret production

To Richard Cohn and Cynthia Black of Atria Books/Beyond Words,

For their generosity in sharing their stories: Cathy Goodman; Susan

My precious friends for their love and support: Marcy Koltun-

And finally to my daughters, Hayley and Skye Byrne. To Hayley,

DR. JOE VITALE

What kind of a house do you want to live in? Do you want

DR. JOHN DEMARTINI

DR. DENIS WAITLEY

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH

Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental

We all work with one infinite power. We all guide ourselves

Wherever you are—India, Australia, New Zealand,

The Secret is the law of attraction!

Everything that's coming into your life you are attracting

"Every thought of yours is a real thing—a force."

Poets such as William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and William

Religions, such as Hinduism, Hermetic traditions, Buddhism,

law can be found in ancient writings through all the centuries. It

It is the law that determines the complete order in the Universe,

In 1912 Charles Haanel described the law of attraction as "the

The ancient Babylonians and their great prosperity have been

of Babylon. Through their understanding and application of the

A perfect example to demonstrate The Secret and the law of attrac-

examples you may have experienced of the law of attraction in

DR, JOE VITALE

"The predominant thought or the mental

Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you

Think of it this way: we understand that a television station's trans-

The pictures you receive from the transmission of your thoughts

"The vibrations of mental forces are the

As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully

An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever

People keep this epidemic alive when they predominantly think,

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is impersonal and it does

"I don't want to spill something on this outfit."

"I don't want a bad haircut."

"I don't want to be delayed."

"I don't want that person to be rude to me."

"I don't want the restaurant to give away our table."

"I don't want these shoes to hurt."